Was hideki tojo really a dictator 4 Japan?
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Dictator?\n\nI don't think so.\n\nNot unless you think Bush is a dictator, as he's authorised at least as many 'war-crimes'...\n\nIt all depends on how much power you think a 'dictator' has ... considering the fact that the Emperor pushed him to tender his resignation, he can't have had THAT much power! Not enough to qualify as a 'dictator' anyway...!\n\nDictator = An absolute ruler.\nA tyrant, a despot.\n\nHe was definitely NOT any of those!
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Japan is a democracy.
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Dictator is more like it...
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And they said Hitler was a dictator..................
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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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Junichiro Koizumi.\n\nHere is his official website:\nhttp://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
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It was a monarchy, but Hirohito wielded little actual power.  He was being controlled by his generals, so in practice it was more of an oligarchy.
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No, he was a dictator and a genocidal maniac.
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we invaded iwo jima, which is like Japan's Hawaii.  It is considered a main Japanese island by not the main Japanese island.
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DJ Noek has it right.  Germany was Japan's ally. We declared war on Japan immediately, so Germany declared war on us.  So then we declared war on Germany.
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no we were planning to invade Japan its self it was planned for sping of 1946. good thing Japan surrenderd for both of us
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Junichiro Koizumi is the current Prime Minister of Japan.\n\nNote: Like the Queen of England, the Emperor of Japan is not the head of the Japanese Government but merely a figurehead.
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No, because that is what you call a dictatorship.\n\nHowever, if instead of being a left-winger, he had been a right-wing, commie bashing, jail all protesters type of guy, then he probably would be dictator for life, and of course a good friend of the USA like many a previous Latin American dictator of that ilk.
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No.  No sporting event was going to turn back Hitler.  No World Cup Tourney was going to stop Japan from trying to take over the World.  Sometime you gotta put aside diplomacy and kick some ass.
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There have been many different form of Japanese governments during its history including military, monarchy, warlords and now democracy.
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I would have to say that it would be impossible to know the answer, Pure speculation...however, after reviewing the facts:\n\n1. Japan had made overtures via Sweden of negotiating a peace prior to Hiroshima.\n2. However, they did openly turn down the Potsdam demands for unconditional surrender.\n3. Like you mentionioned, Iow Jima and Okinawa showed their army's determination to fight to the last man, altho it may not have proven that the civilians would've done the same on Japan proper.\n4. The first nuclear detonation did not bring immediate surrender from the Japanese leaders.\n5. By using the bomb, we lost the moral argument after the war that the A-bomb should be controlled and never used.\n6. The bombing of civilians was recognized as barbaric before the war and in the Geneva conventions, and yet the allies began using incendiaries on Dresden, Tokyo causing major firestorms.\n7. By ending the war earlier, we did not give the Soviets a chance to mount an offensive against Japan and create a Soviet Bloc as they did in Europe.\n8.Oppenheimer, Fermi and others considered the alternative, increased American casualties vs ending the war sooner by using the weapons, and they recommended the use of the bombs. There were some scientists who recommended a demonstration to show the Japanese leaders the potential devastation, but they were overrulled.\n\nMy opinion is that we did save Japanese lives that would've exceeded the number killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, vis a vis the continued encendiary bombing of Japanese cities and loss due to "fighting" to the last man mentality that showed at Iwo and Okinawa.\n\nThe number of allied lives saved, i would guess, would be around 200,000, but that's only pulling a number out of the sky...the US stated hundreds of thousands, if not more.
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Best Dictator? Bit of an oxymoron don't you think?