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Common practice: when SHTF, the Big Guy resigns in order to take the shame on himself. Back in samurai=jidai, they would commit seppuku, aka harry carry, but today resigning is usually considered sufficient.

Tangent: one of the strange aspects of WWII was that Hirohito did not abdicate to take the shame for Japan’s defeat and destruction. Any other time in Japanese history, the emperor would abdicate, his son, usually too young to rule himself, would take the throne, and be a figurehead until he grew up. Hirohito, by staying emperor for another 40+ years after the war, showed how egocentric he really was—and MacArthur and Truman let him get away with it.

MacArthur and Truman let him get away with it.

Japan and Hirohito could have been justifiably punished much more harshly than they were—although pictures from Japan at the time of surrender show that they had gotten hammered pretty hard. That said, by keeping Hirohito on the throne, MacArthur managed to turn Japan from a fanatic enemy to a strong ally.

Twenty years ago or so I visited Japan. A local showed us around Tokyo. She mad a point of showing us the headquarters where MacArthur ruled Japan from—a building in Tokyo that hadn’t been flattened. For whatever reason, the Japanese had high respect for MacArthur.

The contrast in behavior of the Japanese Police Chief, who was nowhere near the assassination as far as I know, and the now-fired police chief of the Uvalde School Police who was on site as children and teachers bled out is quite revealing.

” aka harry carry “

ha ra ( with r pronounced between l & r ) ki ri(long E sound on the Is ) hara kiri - literally cut/slice stomach . How did the west came up with harry carry ? Hehe...