“My name is Hirohito (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, I was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until my death in 1989. I was the longest-reigning Japanese emperor and I’m one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs. As emperor during the Shōwa era, I oversaw the rise of Japanese militarism, Japan's expansionism in Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the postwar Japanese economic miracle.”