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- Season 6 Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule
- Season 6 Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
- Season 6 Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)
- Season 6 FINDING SATOSHI
- Season 6 A Monk’s Lessons: Living Amid Death From COVID
- Season 6 Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet
- Season 6 Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic
- Season 6 The Unknown Master of Restoration
- Season 6 Fukushima Monologue II
- Season 6 Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
- Season 6 Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis
- Season 6 Rainbow Family
- Season 6 A Teacher's Life Lesson
- Season 6 Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow
- Season 6 Daily Life in Times of War
- Season 6 Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens
- Season 6 Art of the Inland Sea
- Season 6 Art is Our Voice
- Season 6 Land of Rising Dreams?
- Season 6 Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village
- Season 6 Mississippi Revealed
- Season 6 JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain
- Season 6 Mountainous Traditions
- Season 6 OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -
- Season 6 Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca
- Season 6 Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
- Season 6 Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries
- Season 6 Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2
NHK WORLD PRIME - Season 6 Episode 2 Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
9.00 50 minutes Eighty years have passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to the start of the Pacific War. It has recently come to light that, soon after Japan's defeat, Emperor Showa spoke at great length about the path to war. This discussion was recorded in the Haietsuki (Records of Imperial Audiences) by Tajima Michiji, the grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency. The emperor spoke repeatedly about his regrets over the failure to rein in the insubordination of the Imperial Army that began with the Zhang Zuolin Incident in 1928. In addition, the journals of the emperor's grand chamberlain Hyakutake Saburo were made public in September 2021. These newly available historical documents, coupled with dramatic recreations, are used to examine the decision-making of the emperor and his close aides in the period leading to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. (Excerpt)
