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...Buruma also finds fault with General Douglas MacArthur for botching the chance to rebuild Japan on a solid democratic foundation. MacArthur's self-serving notion of the Japanese "as a childlike people who would run amok without imperial guidance" led him to protect Emperor Hirohito from prosecution as a war criminal, Buruma asserts, blurring the nation's responsibility for atrocities carried out in his name. And the war-renouncing constitution written by the Americans merely shifted the highest prerogative of state from the hands of a divine Emperor to a foreign capital, he says, institutionalizing an "infantile dependency...
...last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July 1945 and spent the next 13 years living in the mountains of northern Hokkaido, unaware that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered...
Resplendent in his military uniform, Prince Regent Hirohito in 1921 watched the making of a movie in Tokyo. Amazed at this novel way of capturing his country's way of life, the Emperor-to-be gave the new medium official approval, spawning a government-sanctioned industry that created thousands of silent motion pictures. After the rise of Japanese militarism led to the havoc of World War II, most of the country's silent movies were considered lost to history. "Some of the surviving films were destroyed by American occupation forces," says Joseph Anderson, author of the 1983 book, The Japanese...
...institution. It was a center of British colonial life and later the playground of the rich and famous passing through the island. Lest you forget its illustrious clientele, the hotel has a bronze plaque listing its celebrity guests, with names ranging from famous to infamous: John D. Rockefeller, Emperor Hirohito, Indira Gandhi, Imran Khan, Bo Derek, Carrie Fisher and Kurt Waldheim...
...Ever since the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito was stripped of his divinity, Japan's royals have used life's milestones to strengthen their bonds with a skeptical Japanese public. Beneath the veneer of respect and admiration for the royals, there is still residual resentment over the role of Hirohito in Japan's wartime aggression. "I don't like the royal family very much," says a 27-year-old journalist who turned down an assignment to cover the royal birth because of her distaste for the imperial system. "It's nice to celebrate the birth, since they...