Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
Ah, so you agree that the U.S. in fact did not give any concessions to Japan regarding the Emperor. You state that this was because of its obligations rather than what it would have done anyway, but that hardly matters does it?
The US had already before surrender decided to retain the monarchy, do you understand that?
Are you reading the same paragraph 11 that the rest of us are? It explicitly says that there will be deindustrialization such that Japan would not be able to rearm for war. It also says that enough will be retained such that the Japanese won't all die while still paying the reparations that will be demanded, but that's just an obvious corollary to the promise that the Japanese people won't be destroyed or enslaved, which was also given to Germany. That the Morganthau Plan would have resulted in the destruction of the German people was precisely why it was not carried out.
The Morgenthau Plan wasn't carried out because Roosevelt died. The fact is that it was the agreed upon US approach for a period of time. And it would not have allowed Germany "to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind," which is what Japan was promised.