Based Macarthur was 6 feet tall btw (I don't know why he was touching his butt for the pic 
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!historychads it never began for nips
This was 
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i don't know what's more embarrassing. that that is what the jap god looks like or that that is what the conquering american general looks like.
hirohito looks like a 12 year old with a fake moustache and macarthur looks like the 80 year old yelling at you to get off his lawn
i still can't believe mac bitched out and let him keep his god position.
it's hard to take mac serious after this picture
he made the boat stop short so he could do this totally cool photo op wading in instead of letting it properly land on the shore.
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I mean, it was an easy win for the US. It would let Japanese feel like they had at least retained some honor without actually changing anything. If you conquered the US tomorrow there would be no point trying to ban Christianity because it would just make more enemies, whereas if you just let people keep practicing Christianity it would help make it easier to occupy them.
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And their military leader looked like this
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What's astonishing is that Hirohito was royalty. In Europe most noblemen and royals were taller than the average peasant, Peter the Great was 6'8” tall
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He probably was taller than the peasants tho
Japan was poor as dirt after isolationism for the 2 or 300 years
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also in europe most noblemen were deformed diseased freaks from generations of inbreeding
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Omg that's adorable.
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Reading up on jap history a bit and imo they were more into the idea of the Emperor than the guy himself. He was supposed to stand for all the Emperors before and undo the 700 years of shogunate rule
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Pretty much that, however even after the Meiji restoration, the emperor continued to be a figurehead.
Interesting that Japan's current constitution recognizes the Emperor not as a head of state, but rather as a symbol of Japan's unity, it fits Japanese culture and historical relationship with their monarchy quite well.
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That's not incidental. The Allies forced this upon Japan so that the Emperor would never have power ever again
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I know, I'm just pointing out it still fits Japanese tradition as for centuries the Emperor was a ceremonial Figurehead who symbolized the country.
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Wasnt it something like during the restoration the emperor was basically there to unify the two main warring factions at the time but they also developed a parliament at the same time
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The Meiji restoration was supported by conservatives who thought the Shogunate was paddling to foreigners and modernizers who wanted Japan to adapt to the new times. The most traditional faction was defeated later on and the film “The Last Samurai” shows it.
Parliament came later, the “Diet” was established by the 1889 constitution, until then Japan was theoretically an Absolute Monarchy, but Emperor Meiji simply consented whatever his council decided setting precedent to his successors.
Still, the big problem with Imperial Japan was that the Civil Government had no control over the military. The Emperor did as Commander-in-Chief but in practice the Imperial Army and Navy would just act on its own and by WW2 the country was a de facto Military Dictatorship despite maintaining the Diet and Civil Government.
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Have you seen "The Wind Rises"?
The protagonist works for Mistubishi but is wanted by secret police for something, I'm pretty sure it's for his political affiliation though it's never explained and I dont know enough to figure it out. Could you explain onegaishimasu
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I haven't, the trailer looks interesting, I'm gonna watch it someday.
I'm reading “The Rising Sun: The fall of the Empire of Japan 1936-1945” and it gets into detail in how the Japanese Government worked (or didn't work) at the time. My only grip is that is probably outdated (published in 1970) and the author is biased in favor of the japs (the book is like 1000 pages long but Nanking Massacre gets covered in 2 pages lol).
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I'll have to read it. The Wind Rises is one of, if not the best serious animes. Highly recommend it, especially if you're both a weeb and milsperg
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He was the living incarnation of the Shinto Gods
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BUILT FOR
@BWC
Apparently it was like that everywhere he went. Pretty impressive how quickly the Japs went from
to 
The power of BWC I guess. Or maybe all the fanatics had 
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TV was in its infancy back then and I'm not sure Hirohito appeared in any films, probably 99.99% of Japanese had no idea what the Emperor looked like other than from a few photos. Most Americans didn't even know that FDR used a wheelchair.
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it always blows my mind how the journ*list community all agreed to keep FDRs crippled polio legs secret.
like imagine if trump (or any modern president) was in that situation. 10 seconds in pictures of him in his chair would be blasted across every newspaper in the country.
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surely the media
could never 
do that today 
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Pants didnt fit well for anyone back then
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you dont understand. they were coming from knee breeches era
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Nah those pants stylish-AF. Look at the level of hip flexibility.
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Look at those wide, child-bearing hips.
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