Emperor Hirohito: Inheritor of Divine Power, Ceremonial Symbol From: The Washington Post | Date: January 7, 1989| Author: William Chapman | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Emperor Hirohito, who presided over a turbulent era that saw Japan rise to heights of imperial conquest, fall devastated in military defeat, and then reemerge as a leading world economic power, died Jan. 7 at 87 years after a long illness. His physicians announced that he had been suffering from duodenal cancer.

He reigned longer than any other monarch in Japan's recorded history, taking the throne in 1926 as his nation's 124th emperor, inheritor of divine power. Twenty years later,...

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