Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan.
His grandfather was Emperor Meiji, and anyone who has heard of the Meiji Restoration knows that Japan changed its political system and achieved national development because Emperor Meiji established the authority of the Emperor.
Emperor Meiji
But his children were not in good health, some people said that because of genetic defects, he had 15 children with 5 imperial concubines, and 11 of them died prematurely.
Crown Prince Jiaren was the only boy he survived, but he was also ill, with a lifelong illness (meningitis, diabetes, cerebral thrombosis, psychosis) and retired early in the morning.
Jia Ren
Emperor Meiji pinned his hopes on his grandson, Hirohito, who was born in 1901. Find him the best teacher in the country to educate and cultivate his image as emperor.
As the eldest grandson, Hirohito was taken away 70 days after his birth to begin the emperor's cultivation.
His teacher was a retired soldier whom Meiji had "selected", a former Minister of the Navy, and a Confucianist Junyoshi Kawamura. But 3 years later, the teacher also died. Hirohito returned to the imperial family.
Hirohito
3 years old, it was a great time for the children to play. The Emperor built the Imperial Palace for them, where Hirohito and his two younger brothers attend kindergarten.
The teacher is a 22-year-old female college student Adachi Takashi. The games played by the emperors and grandchildren in kindergartens, like the children of all the upper nobility, were russo-Japanese war games.
Boys, who are also the future emperors, have a clear goal in their training.
4 Hirohito brothers
The Russo-Japanese War is a legendary story of Emperor Meiji, which was imitated and studied by the descendants of the imperial family. In the game, the future Emperor Hirohito will always be the commander-in-chief of the side that plays the winner. It is absolutely not allowed to commit the following offenses and compete for toys, although they are brothers.
Once, Hirohito's younger brother Yongjin got into an argument with his older brother Hirohito, who was 1 year older, over a toy, and the lively younger brother beat him with part of the cannon toy. The teachers were frightened and rushed over to drag Yongren away.
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The female officer in charge of life carried him to the prayer room, thought about it behind closed doors, apologized to the portraits of his parents, and made him swear in front of the sun goddess that he would never hit his brother again.
The image of the emperor's authority was established in such an environment. The Emperor is the embodiment of God, inviolable, inconceivable, eternal and unconditional allegiance, and loyalty is cultivated in this way.
Yuhito, grandson of Emperor Akihito of Japan