How and why was Emperor Hirohito able to escape persecution after WW2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbVWAjUPQDk
he was a meme
>>1377618
because he was a figurehead and all the actual military planning was done by the clique of generals and lords who seized japan since the meiji era?
>>1377618
He was innocent and actually cared about Japan and her people, as well as the fact the Japs absolutely loved him.
Keeping him in power was how we kept the peace in Japan.
>>1377622
So he had no power over these generals and lords?
>>1377618
tl;dr is MacArthur was a huge weaboo and used his position to protect a lot of war criminals like Hirohito.
And when I say weaboo I mean like he was a orientalist and wore a kimono around his office at the War Department in the 30s.
>how
Shieled from prosecution by SCAP and MacArthur
>why
SCAP and MacArthur being wrongly convinced that the savage Jap mongoloid still held early bronze age beliefs that Hirohoto was legit a divine god-king.
Do your own homework next time OP
>>1377618
>How and why was Emperor Hirohito able to escape persecution after WW2?
>Yo senpai can we use this island as a military base against the USSR?
>Sure, senpai, say no more, just keep me alive and rich is all.
>>1377629
Not a homework question, faggot.
>>1377627
Figureheads tend to not have any power. Britain keeps its monarchy even though all of their actual power was drained away at the end of ww1 because they are good for morale and are a nicer face than some collective of powerful generals.
The President of the United states is the figurehead of the country, even though most of the actual work in the system is done in congress
>>1377637
>Not a homework question, faggot.
>...OP furiously typed, as he opened another tab to Google what SCAP was. Online submission was due in 15 minutes and his Tendies were getting cold
>>1377639
Are you actually implying that the president has no real power?
>>1377653
he exists to give the media money ever four years, no? It's why they're pulling out coloured presidents now to keep interest up in the digital age.
>>1377649
>>...OP furiously typed, as he opened another tab to Google what SCAP was. Online submission was due in 15 minutes and his Tendies were getting cold
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
>>1377653
are you implying that the US isn't a corporate bureaucracy with a pretty face?
How and why was Surgeon General Shiro Ishii able to escape persecution after WW2?
>>1377618
Because the Japs would have revolted, and we didn't want to tear down the Purple Heart Pyramid, almost got into Guinness for that.
>>1377667
Converted to Catholicism.
>>1377656
He can also order your summary execution without a charge if you ever decide to take a vacation outside of the United States, and if he really wanted to he could probably have you knocked out at home for the price of an extra place setting at a dinner in the White House.
He can also unilaterally reinterpret the meaning of congress' budget by practicing the i Ching with federal agencies' charters, finding totally novel uses for the governments revenue.
>>1377656
A WOMAN PRESIDENT GUYS isnt it the most historic thing in history?
Please do not pay attention to the TPP or the NSA
>>1377666
>Hitler didn't REALLY have the power to order the invasion of Poland, because if his orders really dissatisfied the NSDAP command structure they could openly engage in sedition, or have his head blown off the next time his top-down convertible is taking a u-turn in a 5mph motorcade!
There are land fills full of 4 star generals and former directors of Federal Spook Agency: X who came into conflict with the prevailing winds of 'official neutrality' under the Obama administration.
Go back any further and you are standing on foundations of them.
>>1377618
He became good friends with MacArthur and the Japanese people loved both of them
>>1377618
blame america
Same way 90% of Nazis were whitewashed and set free in Germany. There's more harm than good from killing every guilty person when that'll mean you are wiping out like 20% of the populace and all of its administrative structure.
>>1377618
MacArthur's decision to keep the Emperor in place was pretty calculated, and mostly had the spread of Communism in mind. Between Mao's guerrillas gaining ground in China, Northern Korea under USSR occupation, and Vietnam under the control of Ho Chi Minh, It was a very real fear that with the Imperial government completely destroyed, communist forces may take up the power vacuum as well, and he needed an Anti-Communist base in East Asia to keep American influence in the region.
>>1377667
You don't kill smart people, you put them to use and have them under your watch/control.
>>1377667
Promised to provide his research to the Americans.
On the one hand it was shitty to pardon such a cunt, on the other hand if the research was useful it'd be wasteful not to make use of it, it won't bring the victims back.
>>1377618
>>1377627
>>1377622
there is actually a big debate about how much power and influence he actually had
for example he intervened after the manchurian incident where he had the responsible military officers fired. he was the commander in chief and he could have potentially stopped any action he did not agree with but it seems he was content to just let people like tojo do the job and not get too involved.
the reason he wasn't made to abdicate after the war was that during the war he was built up as the divine symbol of the japanese nation and if he had been removed it might have led to a resurgence in nationalism. the emperor keeping his position was one of the most contentious points in the japanese decision to surrender. as a compromise he had to announce officially that he wasn't a god on the radio. also this picture was released which made people realize that maybe he wasn't that "great" of a ruler
>>1377618
We needed an ally.
>>1377657
So do your own hw research next time, fag.
>>1377628
Was MacArthur the original Ken-Sama?
>>1377667
Eternal Anglo
>>1378713
>that he wasn't a god on the radio
Lmao he totally implied he still was though
>>1378713
Did MacArthur have a fucking lazy eye?
Hahaha jesus this guy keeps getting more pathetic
>>1377618
he dindu nuffin
gettin his empire back on track
goin to Yasukuni Shrine erry year
>>1378713
>the emperor keeping his position was one of the most contentious points in the japanese decision to surrender.
Nah, they wanted to maintain the Kokutai.
>>1377629
>SCAP and MacArthur being wrongly convinced that the savage Jap mongoloid still held early bronze age beliefs that Hirohoto was legit a divine god-king.
This, plus MacArthur being wrongly convinced that if the savage Jap mongoloid didn't still hold early bronze age beliefs, they were a fucking commie.
The reign of Japanese emperors went back to almost 660 BC. All Japanese emperors were said to be direct descendants of the Japanese sun-goddess Amaterasu. Even during the rule of the Shogunate, the Shoguns respected the Japanese emperors (although it was more of a symbolic gesture). It was only when the Shoguns were finally defeated did the Japanese emperors take a more central role in Japanese politics. Most, if not all Japanese soldiers fought in his name and believed in his symbolism (or perhaps more than that). The Americans eventually realized that only the man that the Japanese so much revered (to the extent of performing banzai charges and kamikaze attacks) could only control the Japanese. Hence when Emperor Hirohito offered surrender, the Americans still knew they needed him alive and would have prevented more bloodshed anyways among the Japanese military and civilian population.
>>1377667
A majority of life saving operations today exist because of research gleamed from Unit 747.
It's a bit inhumane to think about, but at the same time the amount of humans it has saved is nothing to shove under the rug.
>>1381553
>>boeing 747
its unit 731, and it was useless tier human experimentation, ex. testing impact of grenades and such, go read a book or at least wikipedia article or smthinh
>>1382691
To play devil's advocate their research on hypothermia in humans was very important
