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Imperial Japan:  the Revisionism Continues

By | August 15, 2017

[August 15, 2017]  On this date, August 15, 1945, it was announced that Imperial Japan would surrender unconditionally, bringing World War II to a close.1  Called the Jewel Voice Broadcast, Emperor Hirohito personally announced the surrender in a recorded radio address across the Empire.  Yet since that time there has been a systematic revisionism that downplays wartime atrocities… Read More »