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Post by stevep on May 14, 2020 16:09:46 GMT
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Post by 49ersfootball on May 15, 2020 0:14:13 GMT
Wasn't Emperor Hirohito the one, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
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Post by lordroel on May 15, 2020 3:00:04 GMT
Wasn't Emperor Hirohito the one, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor ? Emperor Hirohito approved of the war plans, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the other attacks launched on December 7/8, in an imperial conference on November 5, 1941. At this point in the war Hirohito was mostly a figurehead. Though he was the commander in chief, and a deity to boot, he exerted relatively little direct control of his military which had been doing anything it pleased for close on a decade, up to and including starting a war in China without his or the nominally civilian government's approval. The institution that was answerable to Hirohito - the Imperial General Headquarters - had taken the decision to go to war with the US and Britain, formulated its plans, obtained cabinet approval and then presented them to Hirohito as a fait accompli and Hirohito duly signed off on them. Hirohito tried to spin both his knowledge of Japan's war plans and his acceptance of them after the war. Contemporary evidence indicates that Hirohito was in agreement with the decision to go to war with the US and Britain and was not troubled by the sucker punch at Pearl Harbor. Over the course the course of the war Hirohito changed from a figurehead to a major player in strategy and decision making, though not commensurate with one who was supposedly a living god commanding absolute obedience. By 1945, he had real influence on decision making and mostly successfully exerted it. |
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