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This Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, photo shows journals and notebooks kept by Michiji Tajima, a former top Imperial Household Agency, in Tokyo. Japan’s wartime Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II and tried, although unsuccessfully, to include the word “remorse” in his 1952 speech, documents obtained by NHK TV show. The records of conversations spanning nearly five years with Hirohito were kept by Tajima who took office after the war. (Kyodo News via AP)

New documents show Japan’s wartime emperor had deep regrets

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this July 26, 2018, photo, Takeo Hatano, a used bookstore owner, shows the five-page &quot;Yuzawa memo,&quot; written by Michio Yuzawa, interior vice minister in 194, in Tokyo. The newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Released memo points to Hirohito’s role in Pearl Harbor raid

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2017 image from an Associated Press Television video, the post-World War II memoirs composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are displayed at Bonham's suction house in New York. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, the two-volume, 173 page document, that offers the emperor's recollections of World War II has fetched $275,000 at an auction in New York. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick, File)

Emperor Hirohito memoir bought by Japanese doctor

By TOM McELROY - Associated Press

In this image from an Associated Press video, one volume of a two-volume, 173-page, post-World War II memoir composed by Japanese Emperor Hirohito is displayed at Bonhams Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in New York. The document was dictated by the Emperor to aides after the war and transcribed word-for-word by a senior diplomat. It was created at the request of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, whose administration controlled Japan at the time. The memoir, also known as the imperial monologue, covers events from the Japanese assassination of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 to the emperor's surrender broadcast recorded on Aug. 14, 1945. It is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 at Bonhams' auction Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Joseph B. Frederick)

Memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito to be auctioned in NY

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio calls on a reporters during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Veterans angered Japan prime minister will address Congress on World War II emperor’s birthday

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times