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  2. Hirohito surrender broadcast - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Humanity Declaration - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lionel Logue - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Emperor of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. King's speech - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia

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    The name "Yukio" came from yuki , the Japanese word for "snow", because of the snow they saw on Mount Fuji as the train passed. [56] The story was later published as a limited book edition (4,000 copies) in 1944 due to a wartime paper shortage. Mishima had it published as a keepsake to remember him by, as he assumed that he would die in the war.

  8. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    But it was Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech that immediately took its place as one of the greatest in U.S. history. SEE MORE: 8 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes that raise eyebrows instead ...

  9. Kuzenbo - Wikipedia

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    Katō Kiyomasa recruited the help of local monkeys, which are the enemies of kappa, to defeat the king Kuzenbo and his clan. [1] [2] [3] Another legend, told through kamishibai, tells how Kuzenbo, imprisoned in a mountain, was blasted all the way to the Deccan Plateau in India after the mountain he was stuck in was struck by lightning.