If Hirohito was so involved, how did he avoid prosecution for war crimes? That was largely thanks to General Douglas ...

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur ... On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy in the heart of Tokyo.

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

From General Douglas MacArthur came an order ... MacArthur’s purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito’s scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the press ...