Was Hirohito the least shit out of the axis leaders?

The navy and army fought each other almost as much as the enemy.

The admirals and generals were not very forward thinking. If it worked before, it'll work again. Even when Yamamoto and others that had been in the USA, told them otherwise.

>Almost assassinated as kid.
>Top brass thinks it's a good idea to lock him up until he's an adult for safety.
>Comes out with no social skills or how-to-politics.
>Lets rebellious lower-army officers take over government.
>Second Sino-Japanese War, eight years later, only country in the world nuked twice.

He was the figurehead of Japan, and a lot of the army waltzed into WWII under the impression that it was "for their emperor." He might not have had much official government power, but if was raised with some balls he might've been able to use his political influence to maybe change their minds.

But I don't know. I really think Hitler was the least-crappy, of them all.

But consider Japan's position at the time - the country was, as always, resource poor, especially being in the process of industrialization.

Do you really think the leaders would seek to attack the US completely unprovoked?

In order to succeed in its geopolitical objectives, Japan had to follow an imperialist path to obtain the resources it needed to self-sustain and then expand. This clashed with US objectives, so we imposed an oil embargo.

This forced Japan into a predicament - either attack British and Dutch holdings in the pacific to get oil (and by extension, declare war on the US), or give up their gains. We know which path they chose, and they ended up losing that gamble.

He is also talking about abdicating. Truly a humble man.

If he did, would he be the first emperor to do so?

Abdication was commonplace in Japan, with one leader stepping down in favor of another. It happened all over the world.

Abdicating to no one though? That could be argued to be something which has never happened. Nations usually split from the monarchs (America).

Actually I think that title goes to King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, he was literally only 5ft tall.

Arrow Cross Party plz go

I bet they are koreans too.

Are you kidding? The Arrow Cross hated him. They call him a traitor and a cuck for not gobbling down Hitler's dick to the hilt from the get-go.

The whole "Hirohito was a figurehead, he didn du nuthin" angle was made up by MacArthur.

I'm pretty sure FDR's oil embargo was done to provoke the Japanese. So he could break isolationist sentiment and get his war on Germany.

>pragmatic and level headed about every decision.
>Lost 300,000 soldiers

Japan could've gone north or broken with Germany and settled with China.

The reason the Japanese attacked the US was because it was suggested as an option and then nobody dared to back down from this ridiculous idea for fear of looking dishonourable infront of everyone else

>He was not a leader, he was a puppet.
This.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_General_Headquarters

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> victor emmanuel

> leading italy in anyway other than on paper

Tippest toppest of keks

This. Hirohito knew exactly what he wa s doing

No it wasn't, fuck off gook.

t. Shinzo Abe

Hirohito had the final say in everything. He might not have drafted invasion plans or gave orders, but he was a betacuck who gave into everyone else's wishes.

If Hirohito was such a figurehead, why did they need the prosecutors collaboration to keep him from being implicated in the Tokyo trials?

How guilty do you have to be to need a miscarriage of justice to avoid being found guilty at someone else's trial?

>but he was a betacuck who gave into everyone else's wishes.
Nah, he pretty much actively cultivated people around him who were expansionist militarists and firm supporters of Emperor Worship.

Shit yeah, if you staff your military with people like that they're going to give you the advice and 'wishes' you wanted.

You do realize Hirohito died 27 years ago right?

I'm sorry, I don't see the glorious Tsar's face anywhere in this thread. Out of all the Axis, he was the only one that limited himself to only declaring war to reclaim lost territory and not on the Soviet Union, and thus Bulgaria was the only Axis nation to come out of WW2 with her borders increased.

Except the Emperor was against the decision and many of the PM advisors to the Emperor and to Tojo worked tirelessly to work out a solution with the US. The problem was that the us diplomats weren't interested in working anything out that the Japanese could accept until the last moment, then shitty translations ruined the last chance for peace. The US told them to get out of China, but didn't recognize Manchuko as part of that. The Japanese thought the us deal included Manchuria and refused even though the us hadn't considered the entities one and the same. The US diplomat didn't like or respect the Japanese and the Japanese were using inexperienced officers as diplomats. It was a huge clusterfuck that could've been avoided by the two sides talking through the final treaty properly.