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[2] [4]: 160 Reportedly, this was the first time that common Japanese had heard the voice of any Japanese Emperor and the first radio address by the Emperor. [3] [5] [6] To ease the anticipated confusion, after the conclusion of the speech, a radio announcer clarified that the Emperor's message had meant that Japan was surrendering.
He was also a Quaker and, like many Japanese Christians, revered the emperor. [12] In December 1945, he answered in a question and answer session of the Imperial Diet that "the emperor is a god". "It is not a god of Western concept, but 'in the sense that it is the highest level in the world in the traditional Japanese concept' is a god", he ...
Lionel Logue: the King's Mentor, self-published, Box Hill South, Victoria, Australia * "King Honors Australian Who Alleviated Stammer", New York Times (11 May 1937) Letter sent by Logue to George VI, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists archives; Rare photo of Lionel Logue near the end of his life, from the UK National Archives
The Japanese language has two words equivalent to the English word "emperor": tennō (天皇, "heavenly sovereign"), which refers exclusively to the emperor of Japan, and kōtei (皇帝), which primarily identifies non-Japanese emperors. Sumeramikoto ("the imperial person") was also used in Old Japanese.
Mishima began to write his first stories aged 12, taking inspiration from myths (Kojiki, Greek mythology, etc.) and the works of numerous classic Japanese authors, as well as Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Baudelaire, l'Isle-Adam, and other European authors.
A King's Speech, a 2009 radio play by Mark Burgess about King George VI; The King's Speech, a 2010 film about King George VI written by David Seidler The King's Speech, a 2012 stage play based on the film written by David Seidler; The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, a biography by Peter Conradi and Mark Logue
Charles is set to give the first King’s Speech in seven decades to mark the start of the next session of Parliament.
The discovery was catalogued in an English-language journal published by the Ichthyological Society of Japan. [51] [52] In 1965, then-Crown Prince Akihito sent 50 Nile tilapia to Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in response to a request for fish that could solve malnutrition issues in the country. The species has since become a major food source in ...