Emperor of Japan Hirohito (1926-1950)

Emperor of Japan Hirohito ascends the steps to the throne to deliver a speech to the parliament.

A view of part of the meeting hall of the Japanese parliament, with Hirohito on the throne.

Hirohito reads the text of the address to the people and parliament.

Hirohito in a ceremonial uniform and the officers of his retinue accompanying him are riding on horseback.

Hirohito and his entourage are riding around the troops lined up for the parade.

A military parade in honor of the Emperor of Japan.

Troops passing in front of the emperor.

The explosion of the American atomic bomb dropped on Japan in August 1945 (top).

The mushroom cloud of the atomic explosion.

Hirohito and his entourage walk through the ruins of Yokohama, a view of one of the destroyed neighborhoods.

Hirohito presents an award to an elderly reservist.

Doctors at a Yokohama hospital treat a wounded man.

People in kimono on the streets of Japanese cities during religious ceremonies in the 1930s - 1940s.

Faces of participants in one of the religious ceremonies.

Group performance of a Japanese religious ceremony.

Faces of Japanese soldiers on a march.

A sentry on duty.

Soldiers wash in a pool.

Soldiers light each other's cigarettes during a rest stop.

Soldiers receiving letters from home.

Soldiers winding foot wraps around their legs.

Soldiers disassembling weapons and putting on equipment before a march.

Japanese infantry on the march.

Legs of soldiers walking in formation.

Knapsacks and helmets on the backs of soldiers.

Drill exercises with watercraft from Japanese infantry units.

Crossing a water obstacle during exercises.

Japanese troops during tactical exercises.

Mortar men carry mortar parts on their backs while climbing a mountain.

Cooks preparing lunch in a soldier's kitchen.

Tin trays with soldiers' rations laid out.

Japanese soldiers eating during a halt.

Faces of Japanese soldiers standing in formation.

Japanese infantrymen marching in the jungles of the Philippines.

Faces of Japanese soldiers passing by.

An artillery piece firing.

Faces of Japanese officers before the attack (panorama).

Soldiers with fixed bayonets await the command.

An officer gives the command.

Japanese soldiers rise to attack.

Soldiers run to attack the enemy.

Storming the fortress walls.

Japanese soldiers on the wall of a captured fortress in one of the provinces of China (panorama).

Sentries on duty.

Japanese soldiers killed in battle.

Japanese soldiers and officers during the funeral of their fallen comrades.

Infantry advancing under the cover of a tank.

Officers at an observation post near the Japanese national flag.

Units of the Japanese army and navy pass by with national flags.

Emperor Hirohito and his entourage ride past troops lined up for parade.

Japanese men and women pray.

Representatives of Japanese youth organizations salute the Emperor.

Hirohito rides, places his hand on his headdress.

Portraits of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin against the background of a world map.

Portrait of Hirohito against the background of the Japanese national flag.

Members of Japanese youth organizations pass in front of the Emperor.

The imperial carriage passes.

The passenger train passes Mount Fuji.

The Emperor's car, accompanied by a motorcycle escort, drives along a Tokyo street.

Hirohito gets out of the car, climbs the steps to the entrance of the palace.

Subjects greet their Emperor with a bow.

Hirohito during a visit to a military camp.

The Japanese greet the Emperor, Hirohito responds to the greetings, standing on a dais.

Religious procession in Japan, faces of the participants in the procession.

Loading corpses onto a truck.

Corpses of American soldiers washed ashore.

Seriously wounded American soldiers on stretchers during the evacuation.

A fragment of a Japanese propaganda cartoon from the Second World War.

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka delivers a speech.

View of a funeral bell, victims of the American bombing of Japan.

Burial ceremony of urns with the ashes of the dead.

Faces of funeral participants.

Soldiers in formation with funeral urns on their chests.

View of a funeral ceremony at a temple.

Japanese religious funeral attributes, notes with the names of the dead.

Soldiers take up arms "on guard".

Soldiers and sailors in formation.

Faces of the sailors.

Hirohito and his entourage climb the steps of the temple.

Cadets of one of the military schools exit the gates, salute each other.

Presentation of funeral urns to the wives of the dead servicemen.

The wives and relatives of the dead servicemen light memorial candles during a religious ceremony.

Corpses of Japanese soldiers, faces of the dead.

Faces of an American soldier.

Japanese religious building.

Map of Japan (animation).

Seascape.

Panorama of coastal cliffs (top).

Japanese mountain landscape (panorama).

Tea harvesting on a plantation at the foot of Fujiyama.

The beginning of a volcanic eruption, ash ejection from the crater.

A woman with a child in her arms at the beginning of an earthquake.

Figurines on a shelf swaying from vibrations, a girl's face.

A house collapsed as a result of an earthquake.

American children collect donations for Japanese children affected by the earthquake.

Trams and above-ground subway in Tokyo.

Views and panoramas of Tokyo districts.

People gathered in a square (panorama).

The peoples that historically made up the Japanese nation (animation).

People entering a temple.

Images on the wall in the light of a slide projector.