I’m glad we let Hirohito stay on after the war.
We should have done the same with The Kaiser in Germany, it sure wound up beating the alternative.
Even some of the college students wanted to kill Hirohito in a coup before the surrender..It’s on yutube
Very true, or maybe William II couple have resigned in favor of his son, if he would have been considered unbearable as a head of state any more. Either by the Entente or by the German people and political class - or by both.
The institution of „Emperor“, the head of the German state in an unbroken line from 962 to 1804, and resurrected in 1871, would have been vastly more important than the individual monarch. There had been resignations of emperors before, after all, so an abdication of William II would not have been without precedent.