Encyclopedia > Ningen-sengen

Article Content

Ningen-sengen

Nin'gen'-sengen (人間宣言, lit. declaration of human being) in 1946 is a national radio broadcast in which Hirohito renounced his divinity and declared that Japan's sovereignty rested with the people.

His script was drafted by Reginald Horace Blyth[?], who introduced Zen and Haiku from Japan to the rest of world.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Father Damien

... patients at the leper colony (see Kalawao County, Hawaii), he contracted the disease, from which he died at the colony. He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was ...