what did hirohito do?
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He was the Emperor of Japan during WWII. He surrendered to Harry Truman after Truman dropped the bombs on Japan. That's what he did.
780157
Hi, \n\nFujio Matsuda served as President of the University of Hawaii during that time period.
205599
I guess the answer is that he was never elected. More or less, they needed a leader, and he stepped up to the plate. I don't even know if they asked him to do it....but i think they did. But there wasn't yet an election protocol set up yet, so that's not really a reason why he shouldn't. He even retired for a while and then came back when they needed someone to help in the war. But he wasn't really "re-elected". In general he was more or less an elected leader, not a president. Someone with the balls to be in charge.
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Quickly:\nEach are headed out by a leader. Japan has an emperor and Europe has a king. Neither controlled a huge amount of power for small regions and so that power was handed down to others.\n\nIn Japan there was the shoguns and in Europe they had their lords. Working under the lords were knights and the Japanese version of a knight is the samurai.\n\nAt the bottom were peasants for both Europe and Japan, though merchants were even below that in Japanese feudal society.
104369
I have no idea what he did.  I just know he was a member for many years.
670705
They should go back to Japan. The US gave Japan their islands back after WW2
484112
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.
1165395
he brought a lot of korean and chinese culture to japan.  he served as a shogun for his aunt, the empress, he brought confucianism, buddhism, and much more.
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Holy cow, some really horrible answers so far........\n\nThe US had imposed economic sanctions on Japan because of their invasion and occupation of Manchuria, and their invasion and occupation of most of Western China.  We wanted them to withdraw from China, and imposed increasingly stringent sanctions that were hurting the Japanese economy, which not only prevented them from supporting their military activities but also hurt civilian production and consumption.\n\nThe Japanese decided that the best way to get the resources they needed (primarily tin, rubber, oil and other natural resources)  was to invaded the resource rich Dutch East Indies.  They also felt they needed to invade US possessions in the Phillipines and the Central Pacific in order to provide an outlying perimeter to protect their conquests.  The Japanese were well aware that such actions would cause the US, Enland, and the Dutch to declare war on them.  Since the English and Dutch were heavily involved in the war in Europe against Germany and Italy, the only real threat the Japanese faced was the US, primarily the US Pacific Fleet which was based at Pearl Harbor.  \n\nTherefor the Japanese devised a plan whereby they would launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, crippling the US Pacific Fleet to the point where it couldn't interfere with their plans for quite some time.  By the time it could, the Japanese would have built up their outlying perimeter making it extremely difficult for any US fleet to interfere.  They also hoped that the attack would so horrify the US civilian population that the US government would sign a peace treaty and accept the status qou.  Admiral Yamamoto and other high level militarly leaders warned that if the US decided to go to war, it was a war that Japan could never win because of the industrial and economic might of the US.\n\nSo, the attack was in response to US sanctions, sanctions which crippled the ability of the Japanese to conduct their war in China.  Since they were unwilling to give up their conquests there, and any further invasion would bring about war against the US, they decided on launching a surprise attack.\n\nHerbmueller99 gave a very short, essentially correct answer. Bobmarley and karatekaty are pretty much dead wrong, and everybody else besides nywrek are almost dead wrong. Nywrek is generally correct, although it was no secret that Germany, Japan, and Italy had signed the Tripartite Pact, and the entire USN wasn't based at Pearl Harbor, just a majority of the Pacific Fleet.\n\nHigh school and college history teachers must be doing a lousy job nowadays, or people simply don't read anymore.
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Japan was in a land war with China and needed oil from Malaysia and the Americans threatened to block them. They thought if they took out the American naval fleet they would have complete control of the Far East. They not only attacked Hawaii, they also attacked and invaded the Philippines along with many other British and American outposts. Bottom line: It was about the oil.
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The Japanese military.  They were provoked, though, by Roosevelt's policies, mostly his embargo of the materials Japan needed to continue it's war in China.
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The Americans.  He had to admit as part of the surrender that he was no longer a living god.\n\nAmericans began to alter the politics and government of the Japanese after they were defeated.  Japan also had to disband it's army.
182817
he just didn't do much about it
824494
i should imagine he rose early..ate a gigantic breakfast..met with his ministers..maybe rode afterwards..did a bit of hunting..another enormous lunch..slept for a while.went to his wifes boudior..gigantic evening meal with entertainment..went to bed.
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The current emperor is Emperor Akihito (referred to in Japan simply as Tennō Heika 天皇陛下, "His Majesty the Emperor" as calling him by his personal name is considered disrespectful), who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father Emperor Hirohito died in 1989.
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He wanted peace and found it through eastern religion and philosophy, particularly Indian Hinduism and Buddhism. It was out of left feild for that generation to put the Eastern world as an equal to the Western world. Plus he fought so hard against the war, just generally a hippie. There were also rumors of him perhaps being fond of communisim (see his song Imagine), but I don't think I totally believe them.
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the Japanese did but that is all I know about it