TOKYO: The master recording of Emperor Hirohito’s speech announcing Japan’s World War II surrender has been brought back to life in digital form ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.
The Imperial Household Agency on Saturday released the original audio from the vinyl master records of Hirohito’s radio broadcast on August 15, 1945.
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