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By late summer of 1945, Tokyo was gone.

So as Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Hiroshima.

Tokyo had once been the largest industrial city in all of Asia.

But like other Japanese cities, its factories now stood as skeletons of steel and ash.

At night, the only sign that anything ever existed on these charred plots of land

was a soft glow of makeshift fires created by the displaced citizens who occupied the streets.

For a country built on precision and craft, the silence of these factories following its defeat in World War II was unbearable.

The war took everything and left behind nothing but hunger, literally and spiritually.

In the years that followed, millions of veterans returned home to cities that no longer existed.

They were forced to sleep under bridges and railway overpasses, sell trinkets, beg for food.

Even rice, Japan's nearly sacred staple, would become a form of street currency.

What you're hearing is the four-minute radio address recorded by Japanese Emperor Hirohito, announcing Japan's surrender to Allied forces.

This speech was a big deal, and not just for the obvious reasons that it signaled the end of World War II.

Hirohito's speech was the first time the Japanese public had ever heard the emperor's voice.

Emperors were considered living gods.

Hirohito was considered a divine figure.

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