Hirohito

[heer-oh-hee-toh; Japanese hee-raw-hee-taw]

noun

Showa, 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.

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Contemporary Examples of hirohito

The Japs have this advantage: because of their feeling about Hirohito, they merely wish to kill.
JFK Letter: ‘War Is a Dirty Business’
John F. Kennedy
November 5, 2013
He could just as well have chosen Kaiser Wilhelm or Emperor Hirohito, but where is the urgency in that?
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Michael Moynihan
September 4, 2013

Historical Examples of hirohito

The baby was named by his grandfather, and will have the personal name of Hirohito, and the title Prince Michi.
Japanese Girls and Women
Alice Mabel Bacon

British Dictionary definitions for hirohito

Hirohito

noun

1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89. In 1946 he became a constitutional monarch

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hirohito in Culture

Hirohito

[(heer-oh-hee-toh)]

Japanese emperor who came to the throne in the 1920s. He reigned over the Japanese in World War II. After the war, he was forced to give up the claim to divine status that previous emperors had made. He died in 1989, after long outliving all the other major figures associated with the war.