Hirohito

Hirohito (裕仁?, Apryle 29, 1901 - Januar 7, 1989) wis the Emperor (天皇, tennō?) o Japan the noo, an the 124t Emperor accordin ti Japan's tradeetional order o succession. He wis succeedit bi his eldest son, Akihito. In Japan, he is nou referred tae primarily bi his posthumous name, Emperor Shōwa. The wird Shōwa is the name o the era that correspondit wi the Emperor's ring, an wis made the Emperor's awn name upon his daith. The name Hirohito means "abundant benevolence".

Hirohito / Emperor Shōwa 裕仁 / 昭和天皇
Emperor o Japan
Ring	December 25, 1926 – Januar 7, 1989
Enthronement	November 10, 1928
Predecessor	Taishō
Successor	Akihito
Prime Meenisters	See list Prewar period Giichi Tanaka Osachi Hamaguchi Reijirō Wakatsuki Tsuyoshi Inukai Takahashi Korekiyo (acting) Makoto Saitō Keisuke Okada Kōki Hirota Senjūrō Hayashi Fumimaro Konoe Kiichirō Hiranuma Nobuyuki Abe Mitsumasa Yonai Fumimaro Konoe Hideki Tōjō Kuniaki Koiso Kantarō Suzuki Higashikuni Naruhiko Postwar period Kijūrō Shidehara Tetsu Katayama Hitoshi Ashida Shigeru Yoshida Ichirō Hatoyama Tanzan Ishibashi Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Satō Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Miki Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ōhira Masayoshi Itō (acting) Zenkō Suzuki Yasuhiro Nakasone Noboru Takeshita
Born	29 Apryle 1901(1901-04-29) Aoyama Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Dee'd	7 Januar 1989(1989-01-07) (aged 87) Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Buirial	Februar 24, 1989 Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Spouse	Empress Kōjun
Issue	Princess Teru Princess Hisa Princess Taka Princess Yori Emperor Akihito Prince Hitachi Princess Suga
Full name Hirohito (裕仁)
Hoose	Imperial Hoose o Japan
Faither	Taishō
Mither	Teimei
Seegnatur

At the stairt o his ring, Japan wis awreidy ane o the great pouers—the nint-lairgest economy in the warld, the third-lairgest naval pouer, an ane o the fowr permanent members o the cooncil o the League o Naitions.^[1] He wis the heid o state unner the Constitution o the Empire o Japan in Japan's imperial expansion, militarisation, an involvement in Warld War II. Efter Japan's surrender o the war, he wis nae prosecutit for war crimes as mony ither leadin govrenment feegurs war, an his degree o involvement in wartime deceesions remeens controversial.^[2]

References

1. Northedge, Frederick S. (1986). The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920–1946. New York: Holmes & Meier. pp. 42–48. ISBN 978-0841910652.
2. Yoshimi, Yoshiaki; Matsuno, Seiya (1997). Dokugasusen Kankei Shiryō II (毒ガス戦関係資料. II), Kaisetsu. Jugonen Sensō Gokuhi Shiryoshu (十五年戦争極秘資料集). Tōkyō: Fuji Shuppan. pp. 27–29.

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