Hirohito, Son of Heaven and Scion of the Sun Goddess, last week denied his own identity:
"We have ... to proceed unflinchingly toward elimination of misguided practices of the past. . . . The ties between us and our people ... do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races and fated to rule the world. . . . The Emperor is not a living god. . . ."
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened...
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