Was he innocent?

discussing with Pope about peace of the world

No.
He deserved a noose.

>>213021890 (OP)
>Chest filled to the brim with medals
>Never been remotely near a battle in his entire life
Every. Fucking. Time

He had no real power.

>>213021890 (OP)
Japanese Emperor and Prime Minister didn't want to fight against America.

>>213022113
Hi gaijin-san
When do you go back to your nice country?

>>213022555
下士官は命を捧げて戦ったのだからトップが責任を取って腹を切るべきである

>>213021890 (OP)
The fact that he wasn't put on trial gives China a casus belli to settle the blood debt

>>213021890 (OP)
No, but he paid his debt to society and didn't do anything wrong after the war ended. Plus he was born into his position, and his crime wasn't initiating the war, but being too weak-willed to stop it despite having the power to do so.

>>213022680
Why did he start it to begin with?

>>213022680
I'm not saying he should have been killed but the only path to justice would have been Puyi style prison sentence then rehabilitation. Sitting on the throne after the fact was unjust.

>>213022729
He didn't.
Soldiers acting against orders did, the high command backed them up once the fighting started and it looked like Japan was winning, and anyone actually capable of and interested in stopping them had been assassinated over the course of the 1930s

>>213022680
how did he pay his debt to society? he genocided a gazillion pre-communist chinks, got his country conquered and nuked, and still got to sit on the throne afterwards

>>213022849
He basically spent the rest of his life, in his capacity as emperor, making public apologies to other countries for the war

>>213023000
He didn't apologize to Mao and Kim Il-Sung, the state representatives of the biggest victims (well, half of them for Kim) of Japan. So what good is the apologies?

>>213022615
天皇には開戦決議に対する拒否権が無い

>>213023170
well, it was the Cold War, so he was limited by what America would allow.
Wish he had apologized to Kim though, it would've avoided a lot of trouble down the line.