Emperor hirohito of japan wwii
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Top Image: Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese troops, Courtesy of Asahi Shimbun.
One line of argument about Japan’s surrender maintains the crucial step was a US pledge that Emperor Hirohito could remain on the throne. This superficially seems plausible because in the end, the United States did permit Hirohito to remain on the throne. But there was no such US pledge, and the reason he remained on the throne stemmed from entirely different and later considerations.
Top US officials sharply divided on Hirohito’s fate. The “retentionists” insisted that promising Hirohito’s continued status as emperor was both essential to obtain the surrender of Japan and to secure the compliance with that surrender by Japan’s armed forces. He could further stabilize postwar Japan and legitimize Japanese officials working with the United States. They also warned that deposing the emperor might embitter the Japanese public and open the way later to a revanchist regime. The “abolitionists” insisted that Japan’s militarism and warrior system could not be sundered from the imperial system. Failure to extirpate the imperial system would lead to regrowth of a radical political culture bent on renewed conquest. Memories of recent German history in this regard were all too pointed.
Meanwhile, Japanese
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Emperor Hirohito ()
Emperor Hirohito of Japan, ©Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from until his death in His role in Japan's government in the World War Two remains highly controversial.
Hirohito was born in Tokyo on 29 April , the eldest son of Crown Prince Yoshihito. His father became emperor when Hirohito was
In , Hirohito went on a six-month tour of Europe, becoming the first member of the Japanese imperial family to travel abroad. He married an imperial princess, Nagako, in and they had seven children. Hirohito became emperor when his father died in
The emperor was regarded as divine by many Japanese. In reality he had little power, with civilian and increasingly military officials deciding national policy. He reluctantly supported the invasion of Manchuria and the war against China, and attempted to encourage cooperation with Britain and the USA. However, he had no choice but to approve the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that led to war between Japan and the United States in December Despite his lack of enthusiasm over the decision to go to war, he was pleased with the Japanese military and naval successes that followed. He frequently appeared in military uniform to raise morale.
By the spring of , the defeat of Japan seemed imminent. The Japanese governmen
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Surrender of Japan
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