
National / History | IMPERIAL ANNALS Oct 11, 2014
Selective history: Hirohito's chronicles
by Herbert P. Bix and David Mcneill
Between July 30 and Aug. 2, 1945, when most of Japan's cities, including Tokyo, lay in smoldering ruins from U.S. aerial bombing and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were days away from being incinerated by American nuclear weapons, Emperor Hirohito sent an envoy to several Shinto ...