Hoyt, Hirohito - The Emperor And The Man

Abstract

Since the end of World War II and the subsequent American occupation of Japan, an Imperial conspiracy behind Japanese militarism and expansionism in East Asia prior to and during World War II has always played well in American academia, the press, and in the mind of the general public. The publication of David Bergamini's popular 1300-page tome, Japan's Imperial Conspiracy (1971), served to reinforce this theory. Bergamini's analysis of Hirohito essentially agrees with the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that sat between 1946-1948, which convicted and sentenced some twenty-five well-known Japanese officials for war crimes, the best known being the infamous General Hideki Tojo.