Abstract:

"This program covers the highlights of 20th-century Japanese history: economic depression; the invasion of Manchuria and the departure from the League of Nations; the 1940 Tripartite Alliance; the 2,600th anniversary of the birth of Japan; Pearl Harbor; the turning of the Great East Asia War; Hirohito's surrender message; the emperor's denial of his divinity; the recovery and the entry of Japan into the international community; Hirohito's funeral."