>Be Hirohito
>Cinemaphile says he has no power
>Actually he had power over his 5 star generals to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor, colonize China, and later surrender to America.
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How the frick did he not get executed for his war crimes?
He honestly didn't know it was that bad, majority of the military command didn't report much to him.
Bullshit. His brother personally oversaw the Rape of Nanking.
>Rape of Nanking
No such thing
kek look at him down there, he's too cute to be executed he's just a lil' man
it was just a prank bro
I can think of a whole nation of warcriminals that weren't executed for their crimes but claim to have been.
Because muh communism. Mussolini would have stayed alive for the same reason if they allies had got to before the partisans.
War crimes aren't real
Japan wasn't even at war with Nanking. The soldiers had already deserted or surrendered. They raped and murdered the civilians just to vent their frustrations. It wasn't a lapse in discipline during a chaotic battle, it was rape for sport.
Cities can rebuild, Jake
Hymens cant.
Fresh hymens are being born every day
Consider this. Should the state be held accountable for the actions of men turned feral after fighting? It's not like there was a fricking order that said 'Go rape'.
Nobody gave the Stalin shit after the sovs raped everything that had a hole on it in Berlin.
>after fighting
They didn't fight anyone, that's my point.
Not only are war crimes not real, the concept of an international trial in which the loser of the war has to accept a litany of fabricates charges is reprehensible
would you say it's a crime of war? stfu homosexual
The allies needed him alive because, as a marine biologist, he was the world's premier expert on Japanese aquatic megafauna. All the details of his cooperation with the DoD are still sealed under Top Secret clearance, so I can't give you any specifics, but what I can tell you is that the operation was designated Operation Pepakurippu.
the Japanese people thought he was a descendant of God
>war crimes
What a ridiculous concept. Either war is a time when law and morality are ignored or war itself is a crime. You can't have it both ways, you can't say "the mass murder of thousands and hundreds of thousands in an afternoon is great, that's war" and at the same time say "nooooo, you can't kill them that way, that's a war crime". It's inconsistent and moronic
War crimes are just the more bureaucratic version of casus belli. It's a weak justification that can be bent towards whatever way the guys up top want.
america obviously made good decisions with how they handled the whole situation considering how quickly japan became genuine allies
America was really good to Japan after WW2 in general, not just the emperor. They let a bunch of war crimes/criminals slide and invested a lot in rebuilding the country. I'm guessing it was to grow the US sphere of influence in a part of the world where communism was spreading most rapidly
This. It's absurd to cry about it specially when the pearl harbor victims were more than avenged and the chinese and half the koreand are enemies.
When the US wasn't stuck having to deal with Britain's terrible foreign governing policies they could do it right.
Not to say he was a complete figurehead like bong royalty, but in essence he was mostly just an autist who wanted to study fish and shit and left the ruling part of the job to his generals.
That being said, the allies could still execute the shit out of him to prove a point but it was a combination of A) westerners not really caring about a gorillion chinese and koreans being murderraped because they're not white like the ones killed by european axis powers and B) wanting to show that they're 'cooperating' now.
Wonder what would've happened if the other two surrendered, too. Big H would 100% get executed because of 'muh chosen people' but would Mussolini get hung again?
nips would've chimped out. i know i would've had i been there and they necked my god-emperor
He was pretty much a figurehead before the war as he was after. He did hold immense power and sway over Japan but he wasn't really interested in using it. Also, letting Japan keep their emperor lets the Japanese retain some dignity and makes them more likely to cooperate with the US in the future.
american propaganda
Why do japanese always wear western style suits instead of traditional kimono? Did the americans buck break them that hard?
Japan was extremely westaboo in the 1800's, they restructured their whole government to be more western.
They westernized during the Meiji reformation in order to become competitive. They knew they were falling behind. Dropping all pretense of sticking to tradition and adopting the practices that were serving the big dogs in the West well is what allowed Japan not to be fricked in the ass like Korea or China.
Matthew Perry was a big wake up call for them.
he was a lot more involved in decision making than anyone wants to admit but the US decided after the war that keeping him around as a figurehead would help ease the transition, so they willingly joined in the whitewashing where he was supposedly a helpless hostage of the militarists.
part of the problem is scholars also have almost no idea about what hirohito truly believed about the war. he kept a diary religiously but the imperial household refuses to let anyone look at it and I suspect we won't know for another 50 years minimum
Despite his role as Emperor he was spared so that the Japanese could save face, and transition into post-war relations with allied powers.
Note the Americans wanted to continue the war to finish off the Soviets.
Because peace is more important than revenge.
I always wonder what the man felt when MacArthur took that picture with him side by side. Probably the history's great mogging.
because americans were pragmatists who wanted to turn defeated enemies into happy client state allies instead of stripping them of everything valuable and turning them into poor shitholes that were a drain on everything and constantly clamouring for independence like the dumb ape soviets
it’s only a war crime if you lose
There was this whole concept of
>I can do anything as long as I say it’s for the emperor
Which including usurping the chain of command and ignoring orders
part of the problem is that the military was directly subordinate to the emperor rather than any political officials, so it made it super easy to justify doing shit if you believed the emperor would approve of it. doesn't mean it always worked of course and this became less of an issue from the mid 1930s as military members essentially dominated politics snuffed out the issue
Reminder FDR instigated the war since his family had business ties to China