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    digitally remastered version of the broadcast was released in June 2015. The Gyokuon-hōsō, the radio broadcast in which Hirohito read the Imperial Rescript on...
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    designation more frequently refers to the date of Emperor Hirohito's Gyokuon-hōsō (Imperial Rescript of Surrender), the radio broadcast announcement of...
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    NHK (redirect from Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai)
    programs were broadcast by NHK. NHK also recorded and broadcast the Gyokuon-hōsō, the surrender speech made by Emperor Hirohito, in August 1945. Following...
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    The Gyokuon-hōsō surrender record inside the NHK Museum of Broadcasting....
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    Education Japanese Historical Text Initiative Hirohito surrender broadcast (Gyokuon-hōsō) Kokuchūkai (Column of the Nation Society) National Spiritual Mobilization...
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    decision to the Japanese people through a speech broadcast on the radio (Gyokuon-hōsō, literally "broadcast in the Emperor's voice"). On 15 August 1945, Japan...
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    near total destruction in World War II. Victory over Japan Day and the Gyokuon-hōsō that first announced it Victory in Europe Day Brockmann, Stephen (1996)...
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    that apparently had not yet received the same information or heard the Gyokuon-hōsō radio broadcast. She joined the fleet units entering Tokyo Bay 31 August...
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  • Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender to the Japanese people by Gyokuon-hōsō. A period known as Allied-occupied Japan followed after the war, largely...
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    duties at the War Ministry in Paris. 1945: Hirohito surrender broadcast (Gyokuon-hōsō), recorded by Japanese Emperor Hirohito and broadcast as an unconditional...
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