Documents reveal Hirohito wartime regrets

Updated August 20 2019 - 6:18pm, first published 6:13pm
Journals and notebooks show Japan's Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II.
Journals and notebooks show Japan's Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II.

Newly-unearthed documents have revealed that former Japanese emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about the Second World War.

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