We're lucky that Tojo and Company didn't bump off Hirohito, before he went on the radio.
Lol, Forth = Fourth, whoops
Ain't that the truth. They very nearly DID, as you're apparently well aware.
It's a good thing we didn't bomb the Imperial Palace and kill the Emperor. We'd have had nobody to turn the bloody war "off" if he was gone, and even with Hirohito alive, he was almost prevented by military officers from so doing.
Can you imagine fighting an internecine battle stretching into the mid-1950's on the main Japanese island of Honshu? [shudder]
Sauron
Ain't that the truth. They very nearly DID, as you're apparently well aware.
It's a good thing we didn't bomb the Imperial Palace and kill the Emperor. We'd have had nobody to turn the bloody war "off" if he was gone, and even with Hirohito alive, he was almost prevented by military officers from so doing.
Can you imagine fighting an internecine battle stretching into the mid-1950's on the main Japanese island of Honshu? [shudder]
Sauron