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Just read last wk in a book on the legacy of Nuremberg- that, despite much outcry for Emperor Hirohito be tried as a war criminal- incl the strong desire to do so of such judges as Australia's Sir William Webb, MacArthur as SCAP refused to allow the Tokyo Tribunal to do so on the grounds that Japanese public opinion would've been inflamed at this assault on their earthly deity, to the extent of mass guerilla resistance against the occupying US & BCOF presence, which in turn would require a massive reinforcement of American soldiers to augment security (which is alluded to in a cited extract from his REMINSCENCES), therefore Hirohito was exempted from prosecution. However, WI the likes of Webb et al had somehow managed to have their voices translated into a prosecution of the Emperor ? Would there have been guerilla resistance on the scale predicted by MacArthur, with what results for postwar Japan ?
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