He became a figurehead after he was forced to renounce his divinity, but became the world's longest reigning monarch before his 1989 death.
He was proclaimed prince regent in 1921 due to his father's mental illness, and after surviving an assassination attempt, ascended to the throne in 1926, soon after which he saw his country devastated by one of the worst earthquakes in modern history. A leading expert on jellyfish who published authoritative monographs on marine biology, he did not approve of military expansion, but did not have the power to oppose Tojo and the militarists. He became a figurehead after he was forced to renounce his divinity, but became the world's longest reigning monarch before his 1989 death. Succeeded by Akihito, FTP, who was this emperor of Japan?
He was proclaimed prince regent in 1921 due to his father's mental illness, and after surviving an assassination attempt, ascended to the throne in 1926, soon after which he saw his country devastated by one of the worst earthquakes in modern history.
Emperor Hirohito