the new york times commented on a release of papers about emperor hirohito, who was kind of hidden as a puppet in a lot of analysis of the war. in said that he was far more active than is generally thought to be true. and he was the stubborn one after you are shema -- after hiroshima, when in fact he could have. hiroshima was completely flattened. not only did everybody get radiation poisoning, that the city was completely destroyed. nagasaki is in kind of a canyon. it's like you were in los alamos. when they drop the bomb at nagasaki, and alternate target. d-day, the comment about when the weather was so that. another city was supposed to be the target, but they defaulted to nagasaki because the cloud cover was so terrible. the radiation poisoning killed people but hardly damaged the city because the geography of nagasaki dispersed the blast. and so it didn't wipe out all of the old historic buildings. can go visit them. unless you go, that's not the sort of thing that you would really know. but i found that to be fascinating. having talked to people in japan, they generally conceive

he has reigned for 28 years since succeeding his father heir hee hirohito.nts to step down before he's too frail to

82 and has reigned for 28 years since he followed his father emperor showa whose given name was hirohito. he wants to step down before he's too frail to carry out his duties. he's already informed his family. one possible date for his address is august 8th. they say the emperor will express his feelings after the extraordinary session of the diet and an expected reshuffle of the cabinet. they say agency officials are considering a live tv broadcast so the emperor can speak to a wide audience. he's expected to speak for around ten minutes from the imperial palace in central tokyo. there are no legal provisions for abdication under the japanese law governing the status of the emperor. so the emperor has decided to avoid using the word "abdication" but the sources say the emperor's words will suggest his wishes. if the emperor expresses his feelings on live tv, it would be his first time to do so. after the major earthquake and tsunami that happened in 2011, the emperor delivered a message in a prerecorded video. >>> more details about the largest mass killing in decades. he wasn't monitore

hirohito declared he was not a god based on mythology. the current constitution came into force the following year and the emperor became a symbol of the state and the uninity of the people. that is the system emperor akihito inherited. they include convening the diet, dissolving the lower house, and receiving foreign ambassadors on approval from the cabinet. people in japan are wondering what the future holds for the throne and they're looking back at emperor akihito's reign. yuri hito reports. >> reporter: a day after the possible abdication talk, it's all the news around the palace in tokyo. >> translator: he has been visiting so many countries at such an old age. it must be so hard being over 80 years old. i think it is better for him to pass down his position to the prince. >> translator: i think the emperor tore the wall down between the imperial family and citizens. he sat face-to-face with victims in disaster-hit areas. that was unthinkable in the past. i respect him for making us feel closer to the imperial family. >> i think tha

he has reigned for 28 years since succeeding his father heir hee hirohito. sources say he wants to step down before he's too frail to carry out his duties. and they say he has already informed his family. sources tell nhk arrangements are under way to announce his wishes to the public. one of the sources says that in the event of such an announcement, the emperor may avoid direct expressions, given his role as a national figurehead. the source says the announcement woulden veigh his feelings. there are no legal provisions for abd indication under the japanese law governing the status of the emperor. it would have to be revised to allow the monarch to step down. >>> dozens of foreign workers have been evacuated from the cap of south sudan, including a number of japanese nationals. recent fighting has killed more than 270 people in the country. the situation remains tense after a moncrief ended days of fighting. forces loyal to the president were battling supporters of the vice president in juba. 47 japanese left the capital on wednesday afternoon by chartered

he is 82 and has been emperor since his father, hirohito, died in 1989. an advanced u.s.le defense system will be deployed in a rural farming town in south korea. the decision has reportedly not a anger north korea and china but local residents who are concerned about potential health hazards. australia will be at the helm of the world largest maritime exercises this month when soldiers lead a battalion of troops in the storming of a hawaiian beach. it will be the first time yesterday and maybe has brought an amphibious assault ship to the rim of pacific drills. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists in analysts in more than 126 -- more than 120 countries. it's just after 6:30 here in new york. paul allen has a look at the markets in sydney. : 30 minutes into the new trading day and it's looking pretty good. u.s.ndex up .25% after the managed to eke out its third straight record close, but only just. close, a that to be very slender .1% gain. we are waiting for unemployment a gears for the month of june after we saw the rate edged down, we expect

in february 1945, the former prime minister writes a memo to emperor hero veto -- hirohito in which he says that he regrets to inform you that defeat is inevitable. he goes on to say that we have to be careful there will be a communist revolution accompanying defeat inside japan. increasingly, in the spring of 1945, the japanese are knowledge in their defeat. -- our acknowledging their defeat -- are acknowledging their defeat. why did they just surrender and stop the bloodshed why didn't -- why didn't they just surrender and stop the bloodshed? what were the terms that the united states was demanding? what kind of surrender terms were the united states demanding? this takes plate -- this takes place at the meeting in casablanca, a famous meeting between roosevelt, churchill, in 1943. they decide on unconditional surrender. what is unconditional surrender mean to the japanese -- what does unconditional surrender mean to the japanese? why are they so opposed to unconditional surrender? one of the concerns was the u.s. disarming them, conducting war crimes trials. the biggest one was elim

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