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Obituary to the Emperor Hirohito of Japan. "Hirohito's reticence made it difficult to determine whether he was guilty of complicity in, or mere compliance with, the expansionism that characterized Japan during his first two decades as Emperor. Ultimately 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and 800,000 civilians died in World War II. But most of the evidence suggests that Hirohito was at heart a peace-loving man. At a Cabinet meeting in 1941, when his ministers agitated for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Emperor surprised them all by suddenly reciting a poem composed by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji: 'In a world/ Where all the seas/ Are brethren/ Why then do wind and wave/ So stridently clash?' With that, he fell silent." (Taken from http://www.reiki.fi/english/reiki/histor y/poetry/meiji-waka-poetry.htm)

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