So emperor Hirohito died and lived to his 80s or 90s, why wasn’t he instantly killed or sent to jail after the war ended. Did he get punished at all?
In: 1701
There’s a book called Sugamo prison
It’s about the trials and executions of the class A Japanese war criminals just after the war. It’s written by one of the prosecutors and lays out the case for letting the emperor go, and goes into detail about the crimes committed and the prison time and executions that took place in what is now in the middle of a shopping center in Tokyo.
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