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Again, that's try tuck, t-U-C-com slash history. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 227, The Measure of an Emperor, part two.

In 1921, at the age of 20, crown prince Hirohito finished school, and promptly did what so many

students do when they finish their education.

He took a trip.

Of course, like everything else in Hirohito's life, this was not so much his decision

as it was a carefully crafted decision by a series of stakeholders in the fate of his dynasty,

only one of which was, you know, the guy actually going on the trip.

Specifically, the plan was for the crown prince to go to Europe for a six-month

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