was Hirohito a puppet emperor during WW2?
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Hirohito was no ones puppet prior to World War II.  He was considered Divine and his word was law.  The entire country revered him, yet it was not until he announced to the Japanese people that they would be Surrendering to the U.S. after the Atomic attacks that the common Japanese person heard his voice for the first time.  They were not aware of what he looked like or even sounded like he was that much removed for the common man.  After the war he probably would be considered our puppet as we allowed him to stay on in order for us to have better control over the conquered country.
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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Japan's military actually was the government during WWII\nThe web site below gives a quick summary of the Japanese government from 1916 to 1945.\n\nhttp://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2129.html
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All Americans of Japanese descent and Japanese immigrants were interred from  May, 1942 through the end of 1945.\n\nThe attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 led many to suspect the Japanese were preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast. Further attacks, such as the fairly minor shelling of a California oil refinery in 1942, ostensibly by a Japanese submarine, redoubled these suspicions.  Also, Japan's rapid military conquest of much of Asia made their military machine seem to some Americans frighteningly unstoppable. Civilian and military officials had concerns about the loyalty of the ethnic Japanese on the West Coast and considered them to be a security risk, although these concerns often grew more out of racial hatred than actual risk.\n\nAuthorities also feared sabotage of both military and civilian facilities inside the United States. Military officials expressed concerns that California's water systems were highly vulnerable, and there were concerns about the possibility of arson — brush fires in particular.\n\nAdministration and military leaders also doubted the loyalty of ethnic Japanese because many, including some born in America, had been educated in Japan, where school curricula emphasized reverence for the Emperor.\n\nEver since the end of the war there have been individuals and organizations who have argued that the suspicion of ethnic Japanese was indeed justified.  Members of the American Legion and some veterans who fought in the Pacific theater have been the most vocal proponents of this viewpoint.
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it took Japan after WW2 a looooooooong time.
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it was 2 atomic bombs that were used to change the attitudes of the japanese government.a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and back then they had no way of transporting that kind of power.the germans had a scientist who did come up with the idea and he came to america to share his knowledge of the atomic bomb,Albert Einstein.and if atomic were used today in a war,it would be as effective today as it was back then.
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This rumor is not from any first person source (anyone who would have been in a position to know was dead before the war ended), but is in fact derived from a psychological survey of Hitler's personality conducted by the War Department shortly after the US was brought into WWII. The analysis was done using the sketchy history of Hitler's life that was available at the time, interviews with leaders captured in North Africa, his speeches, etc. It was believed that Hitler had a massive inferiority complex, had a very difficult time controlling his temper (several leaders referred to him as a 'carpet eater' because he would fall to the floor in his office almost convulsing when given particularly disastrous news), and had particularly poor social skills on a one-to-one relationship.\n\nAFter the war, when the survey was de-classified, it was published as "The Mind of Adolf Hitler."
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After allied forces had pushed the Japanese back to their mainland, they still refused to quit fighting.\n\nRefusing to surrender gave Harry Truman (assumed the war time presidency at Roosevelt's death) two choices. Either invade Japan on the ground at the cost of thousands upon thousands of Americans and Japanese lives or drop a bomb and kill thousands of Japanese. \n\nI have a tendency to think Truman already made the decision to drop the bomb but, don't think he thought he would need two!\n\nThe reality: A horrible destiny for a proud people that were lead by a vicious war machine and a  misguided emperor. Thousands of Japanese and their off spring affected for years after.\n\nWas it necessary?
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Yes, although it does have a Constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi was recently re-elected.
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WW1 was about world leadership with japan so we are told and WW2 was about Hitler
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German Hitler=megalomaniac, tried to create a dynasty by conquering Europe.  Japanese=pissed at the US over trade practices, attacks the US @ Pearl Harbor.  The US fights (with Allies) in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.  Wins.
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Italy was the first anti-democratic government in europe.\n\nmussolini established the fascist party in the 1920s and took control of the italian government.  he called himself il duce (the leader) and ruled as a tyrant until he was killed by the italian people and hanged upside down from a meathook during world war 2.\n\nhitler established an anti-democratic government in germany in 1933.  he emulated mussolini and they fought together in world war 2.\n\nemperor hirohito established an anti-democratic government in japan in the 1930s.  he attacked manchuria, korea and china to begin world war two in the pacific.\n\nif you need more info e-mail me.  dan
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Japan is a democracy.
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The winners write history.  Enough said.  Check the history books, do you ever see anything about the "relocation camps" on the west coast of the US filled with "Japanese" during WW II?  It happened. You have to really search for the information, but it is a fact.\n\nSpeaking of WW II, do you actually hear about how the US was staying "neutral", but we were providing weapons, money, and soldiers to the Allies and refused the Axis powers.  Thus provoking the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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No, but his nephew William Patrick Hitler did. He moved here to escape his uncle and joined the US Navy in WW2.
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the japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of Germany.\n\nWilhelm, by nature an impatient man, subjective in his reactions and affected strongly by sentiment, was ill-equipped to steer German foreign policy along a rational course. A typical example was his "love-hate" relationship with Great Britain and with his British cousins. Armed conflict with Britain was never what he had in mind—"a most unimaginable thing", so he once quipped—yet he readily alarmed the British with his massive naval programme. When war came about in 1914 Wilhelm sincerely believed that he was the victim of a diplomatic conspiracy set up by his late uncle, Edward VII. Wilhelm, on his part, could scarcely comprehend how seriously he compromised the monarchy's position by such offhanded, unconsulted actions as his 1896 telegram congratulating President Kruger of the Transvaal on the suppression of the Jameson Raid, and his speech of 27 July 1900 exhorting German troops sent to quell the Boxer Rebellion to emulate the Huns.\n\nSadly, for all his good intentions, Wilhelm frequently made serious personal blunders which strained Germany's diplomatic relations with other countries. The most notorious instance of this may be the Daily Telegraph Affair of 1908. When Wilhelm was offered an interview with the newspaper, he saw it as an opportunity to promote his views and ideas on Anglo-German friendship. Instead, due to his emotional outbursts during the course of the interview, Wilhelm ended up further alienating not only the British people, but also the French, Russians, and Japanese all in one fell swoop by implying, inter alia, that the Germans cared nothing for the British; that the French and Russians had attempted to instigate Germany to intervene in the Second Boer War; and that the German naval buildup was targeted against the Japanese, not Britain. (One memorable quote from the interview is "You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares.") Even his subjects shied away from his damaging comments. Quite understandably, the Emperor kept a very low profile for many months after the Daily Telegraph fiasco, and later exacted his revenge by enforcing the resignation of Prince Bülow, who was supposed to edit the transcript of the interview before its publication. Nevertheless, relations between the royal families of the two countries remained cordial enough that Wilhelm rode in the first rank of the royal procession at the funeral of Edward VII.\n\nYet even this was not consolation enough, for the Daily Telegraph crisis had deeply wounded Wilhelm's previously unimpaired self-confidence, so much that the Emperor soon suffered a severe bout of depression from which he never really recovered, and he in fact had a lighter grip on the reins of government in the last ten years of his rule than general world opinion would be led to believe.\n\nIn the years leading up to World War I, Wilhelm again departed from the Bismarckian doctrine of diplomatically isolating France from the rest of the European powers. He made several conciliatory gestures towards the French, though these attempts were somewhat half-hearted, and despite his knowing very well of France's deep-seated, unflinching revanchist hatred for the German Empire.\n\nJust as with Britain, these early efforts at alleviating France came to an ignominious end, again because of Wilhelm's indiscretion, in the Moroccan Crisis of 1906. During a visit to Tangier, Wilhelm had unwittingly made certain remarks in favour of Moroccan independence, which the French took as a challenge of their influence in Morocco. Only skillful diplomacy by his ambassadors at the Algeciras Conference prevented—or rather, delayed—an open war between the two countries and their allies.\n\nBy arguing with and dismissing Bismarck in 1890 he let the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia (signed in 1887 before he ascended the throne) lapse, thus losing the guarantee of Russian neutrality in the event of a