i wanna hear hirohitos surrender speech but cant find it anywhere anybody know where i can find it
2006-10-07 15:30:10 · 4 answers · asked by daniel p 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
You can go to this address http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hirohito.htm. It contains the surrender speech of Emperor Hirohito, Accepting the Potsdam Declaration, Radio Broadcast.
Transmitted by Domei and Recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, 14 August 1945.
2006-10-08 07:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by ~Charmed Flor~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was in an archaic form of court Japanese, hard even for common Japanese people to understand it, and he read it in a high-pitch squeaky voice.
Transcripts are readily available online, but I have never seen any audio file, and besides, you'd need to know Japanese.
I found a website with the audio rebroadcast of Hirohito's speech...
2006-10-07 15:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is filed in the Library of Congress, and was also published in most of the major newspapers of the day, so should be available in the paper's morgue.
2006-10-07 16:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this site.
2006-10-07 15:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋