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To: Timocrat
Maybe you've read "Japan's Imperial Conspiracy" by David Bergamini. The book came out in 1971 and caused quite a stir. The official line was that the emperor was just figurehead who didn't get in the way of Japan's militarists.

Bergamini laid a very rational argument for Hirohito being chiefly responsible for Japan's aggressive war policies. Naturally, the Allies were eager to have a subdued Japanese population after the war and let Hirohito off the hook.

86 posted on 06/11/2015 10:07:47 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2
Maybe you've read "Japan's Imperial Conspiracy" by David Bergamini.

No but if you're interested try "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert Bix, probably comes to the same conclusion re Hirohito's involvement in the wars of 1930's and 1940's.

94 posted on 06/11/2015 11:08:00 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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