Today marks the 77th Anniversary of VJ Day, marking the official end of WWII. On August 15, 1945, in a radio broadcast to his Empire, Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies. In his somber speech, he noted that the use of "a new and most cruel bomb", led to the surrender and that further fighting would only cause "the ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation"…