In 1921, Hirohito and a 34-man entourage traveled to Western Europe for a six-month tour it was the first time a Japanese crown prince had ever gone abroad. He received rigorous instruction in military and religious matters, along with other subjects such as math and physics. From age 7 to 19, Hirohito attended schools set up for the children of nobility. Instead, Hirohito spent his early years in the care of first a retired vice-admiral and then an imperial attendant. According to custom, imperial family members were not raised by their parents. Hirohito, the eldest son of Crown Prince Yoshihito, was born on April 29, 1901, within the confines of the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo. After Japan’s surrender in 1945, he became a figurehead with no political power. Though Hirohito later portrayed himself as a virtually powerless constitutional monarch, many scholars have come to believe he played an active role in the war effort. During World War II (1939-45), Japan attacked nearly all of its Asian neighbors, allied itself with Nazi Germany and launched a surprise assault on the U.S. He took over at a time of rising democratic sentiment, but his country soon turned toward ultra-nationalism and militarism. Hirohito (1901-1989) was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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