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    Tokyo, August 14, 1945 (20th year of Shōwa) Komori, Yōichi (August 2003). 天皇の玉音放送 [The Emperor's Voice Broadcast] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Gogatsu Shobō...
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    the date was moved to August 15, the day the Hirohito surrender broadcast (玉音放送, Gyokuon-hōsō) had aired in 1945. In the following year, the service was...
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    At the end of the war, he translated the Hirohito surrender broadcast (玉音放送 (Gyokuon-hōsō) into English and read it out by himself to the world on NHK...
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