5 posts - 3 authors - Last post: Jul 8Judging by the rape of Nanking and the appaling treatment of POWs in WW2, should Hirohito have been charged with war crimes?

Emperor Hirohito went through an amazing transformation after World War II that . . Hirohito came very close to being executed as a World War II war criminal. .

Emperor Hirohito was not merely presented as being innocent of any formal acts that might make him culpable to indictment as a war criminal. He was turned .

Japanese war crimes occurred during the period of Japanese imperialism, .

Nov 18, 2010 – At the end of World War II Japan was under American control. It was widely anticipated that Emperor Hirohito would face trial for war crimes .

Feb 18, 2011 – I plan to explore why Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted as war criminal after World War II (WWII). My aim is to assess firstly the different .

Jump to Issue of the Emperor's responsibility for war crimes‎: The issue of Hirohito's responsibility for war crimes is a debate regarding how .

8 answers - Dec 18, 2009Top answer: The military had taken control of the Japanese government before WW2 under a man named Tojo. General MacArthur was put in charge of running .

15 posts - 11 authors - Last post: Mar 10, 2003Emperor Hirohito was 'pardoned' by Truman and his cronies. . No way was Hirohito a war criminal, a king of a country would have no idea .

Hirohito, the grandson of Emperor Meiji, was born in Japan on 29th April 1901. . Some Allied leaders wanted Hirohito to be tried as a war criminal but General .

There is substantial reason for believing that Emperor Hirohito should have been tried for war crimes. It is also true that the Emperor not only played a central .

Aug 9, 2010 – Hirohito or the Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇 Shōwa Tennō) (29 April 1901 . .. 1945 three out of four Americans wanted him tried as a war criminal; .

Emperor Hirohito, 1901-09 - Indepth information detailing Emperor Hirohito, . Hirohito was not tried for war crimes, but he was required on 1 January 1946 to .

Showa Emperor (Hirohito), in his coronation robe . Asia see Hirohito as Asia's Hitler of World War II, and some feel he should have been tried for war crimes. .

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At the end of World War II Japan was under American control. The trail for war crimes of Emperor Hirohito was widely anticipated. It never took place. This BBC .

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice. by Yuma Totani . The fact that Emperor Hirohito was granted de facto immunity enhanced the impression .

Before I even began I was interested in the problem of the "emperor system," and in . Q. What is the reason that Hirohito was not tried for war crimes following .

Hirohito was as loathed by the Allies as Hitler and Mussolini during World War II, and many people expected the emperor to be tried for war crimes after the .

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Timewatch: Emperor Hirohito | 0:49:50 . occupation of Japan kept Hirohito on the throne rather than charge him with war crimes and Hirohito renounced his .

May 5, 2009 – (1/5) Timewatch Emperor Hirohito World War II . kept Hirohito on the throne rather than charge him with war crimes, and Hirohito renounced .

Jun 6, 2011 – Hirohito became the Japanese Emperor on Christmas Day 1926. . Many people wanted the Emperor to be tried for war crimes, and other .

Jan 7, 2011 – He was the eldest child of Emperor Taisho and Empress Teimei. . After World War II, Hirohito was not tried as a war criminal, causing much .

With bombing raids reducing a lot of Japan to rubble, the emperor, Hirohito, believed that Tojo had . In November 1948, Tojo was put on trial as a war criminal. .

Mar 24, 2011 – It wants to dispose of Hirohito as Asia's War Criminal No.1. Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the Emperor's destruction by U.S. .

When his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, died on July 30, 1912, he was named the . Hirohito was spared a trial for war crimes, but he was forced to publicly state .

Aug 20, 2010 – At the end of World War II Japan was under American control. It was widely anticipated that Emperor Hirohito would face trial for war crimes, but .

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The ambiguity surrounding his role in leading Japan to war makes simple . as a war criminal -- Hirohito did his part to remake Japan along an American model, .

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May 6, 2008 – But for the emperor and his subjects, and especially for the people of . .. One should not lay all blame for Japan's war crimes at Hirohito's feet .

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May 21, 2005 – Hirohito's birthday only continued to be observed following the World . exempted Hirohito from charges of war crimes and left the emperor in .

Those actions were the protection of Emperor Hirohito from prosecution as a war criminal and the premature winding up of Allied war crime prosecutions in East .

Oct 4, 1971 – . of a startling new book that proclaims him a major war criminal. . His 1239- page thesis, subtitled "How Emperor Hirohito Led Japan into War Against . But when the war came to an end at Hiroshima, the Emperor and his .

Fourteen years after the death of the Showa Emperor Hirohito in 1989, . At the same time, Chapter 15 on the Tokyo war crimes trial showed that Hirohito and his .

At the end of the war 28 men were charged with war crimes, and among them . that Emperor Hirohito was the mastermind of Japanese involvement in the war, .

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Hirohito was spared execution for his war crimes, because the Allies felt that as a purely symbolic Emperor, he could be useful to them in carrying out their plans .

Dec 7, 2010 – Emperor Hirohito, War Crimes Trials. 1 document found in 0 seconds. DRILL DOWN: War Crimes Trials[-], Emperor Hirohito[-] .

MacArthur first met Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese sovereign is reported to have said: "I . continue to assert that Japan has never apologized for its war crimes. .

10 posts - 4 authors - Last post: Jan 15The issue of Hirohito's responsibility for war crimes is a debate regarding how much real control the Emperor had over the Japanese military .

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Mar 28, 2009 – Unlike most of Japan's military leaders, Emperor Hirohito was never charged or tried for any war crimes committed by Japan during the war. .

Was the Japanese Emperor Hirohito the man who got away with it? Hirohito was . And how much responsibility did he bear for Japan's war crimes? I'll outline a .

Jun 9, 2003 – Draft of Emperor Hirohito's apology speech found . been in preparation for Emperor Hirohito to give after World War II has been found among . which popped up around the time of the 1946-1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal. .

The U.S. general flatly resisted colleagues who felt that Hirohito should be tried as a war criminal. Above all he wanted a peaceful occupation. The Emperor who .

33 posts - 24 authors - Last post: Dec 17, 2004So, was Hirohito's emperor-ship genuinely toothless, like the British . I don't know how the war crimes issue figured in but the last months of .

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