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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s cute, I wish them the best. Also, we need to stop caring about “royal” families. It such an anachronism.[/quote]
I get your point, but the whole reason the postwar imperial system exists is because of General McArthur, the US and the 1947 Constitution drafted by US civilians during the Allied Occupation. [/quote]

That’s true but McArthur and the Allies actually did them a solid. They had already been bombed twice, were losing the war in every conceivable way and yet still - the Japanese were not prepared to surrender if their Emperor was humiliated.

And I mean that literally. The Allies gave them a facesaving surrender by allowing the Emperor to remain as head of state and in power. They didn’t even order any of the imperial men killed for ordering the attack on PH or require the Emperor to sign the treaty of surrender in person. They sent a diplomat.

So yeah - without McArthur the Chrysanthemum throne would have been eliminated 80+ years ago.

And before you say - we shouldn’t have attacked them yada yada - remember the Japanese went to war with us first and at the behest of Imperial council who have never lost a war in the history of their empire.[/quote]

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