I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Only ten days after the Nanjing Army launched psychological warfare against the Japanese army, the Japanese army showed its first general who voluntarily surrendered.

The geographical shape of the southern part of Hokkaido Island presents a "C". The southernmost point of this "C" is Hakodate, the third largest city in Hokkaido. Hakodate is also the only one of the four cities in Hokkaido that has not been captured by the Nanjing Army.

After the Nanjing Army landed in northern Hokkaido, it pushed southward unstoppably. In more than [-] battles, it wiped out four-fifths of the main force of the Japanese army in Hokkaido, and compressed the entire Japanese army to the southern part of Hokkaido.

Since it was impossible for the Japanese army to drive the Nanjing army into the sea and expel them from Hokkaido, General Yamada Otosan, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Hokkaido, was forced to gather the remnants and concentrate the remaining troops in southern Hokkaido with Hakodate as the core, in an attempt to establish a final line of defense to prevent the The Nanjing army captured Hakodate, and then used Hakodate as a bridgehead to attack Honshu Island across the Tsugaru Strait.

At this time, the Japanese army had a million people in southern Hokkaido, but less than 20 of them were regular troops, and the remaining more than 80 were vulnerable National Volunteers.

Even so, it still took a lot of effort for the Nanjing Army to capture the southern part of Hokkaido Island, because the Nanjing Army had not deliberately pursued a "quick decision" since it landed on Hokkaido Island, which gave the Japanese army more time. The Japanese army had sufficient manpower, so a relatively complete fortification was established in the "C"-shaped zone in the southern part of Hokkaido Island.

Admiral Yamada, who was already irritated by the sharply deteriorating battle situation and the severe urging of dozens of telegrams and dozens of phone calls a day from the Tokyo base camp, knew the importance of the "Hakodate Line of Defense". "And the determination to fight to the death and bloody battle until "the jade is broken and the soul guards China" is also to lead by example, thereby boosting morale and boosting the morale of the army. He specially took his family to Hakodate to show that "if Hakodate falls , My whole family will die here" "My whole family will live and die with Hakodate", not only that, but he also followed the example of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and ordered the destruction of all ships in the port of Hakodate (in fact, these ships are nothing If you use it, you will either be bombed by the planes of the Nanjing Army, or you will be struck by mines after leaving the port), and you will take the initiative to cut off the back road, so as to "break the boat and fight with your back."

"We have no way to retreat! After Hakodate is the Tsugaru Strait, and across the Tsugaru Strait is Honshu Island! We must stick to this place! Fight to the end! Until everyone falls! This battle will only have two results, one It was the Chinese army that was repulsed by us, and the other was that the Chinese army occupied Hakodate on the corpses of all of us, including the commander-in-chief and his family. The first result is of course the best, if It is the second result, we also die without regret, because with our lives we have fulfilled our duty of being loyal to the emperor and serving the empire!" General Yamada said in a public speech.

General Yamada has calculated thousands of times, but he has not calculated that there will be traitors among his subordinates.

In fact, the emergence of "traitors" within the Japanese army is not an anecdote that surprised General Yamada. After all, his subordinates are "betraying the Emperor of Japan, the Empire of Japan, and the Yamato nation" for a mouthful of hot soup. But those people are all grassroots officers and soldiers, most of them are members of the National Volunteer Corps, and this time the "traitor" is a lieutenant general.

Late one night in mid-January, Zhang Fakui, who was formulating a battle plan to capture Hakodate and the entire territory of Hokkaido, received a report: a senior Japanese soldier who had just surrendered asked to see him, claiming that he had brought a secret letter from a senior Japanese general. letter.

Zhang Fakui received the Japanese senior soldier with surprise.

"Hello, General!" The Japanese soldier bowed to Zhang Fakui very respectfully, "My name is Saito Kunio, and I am a machine gunner of the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army. Letter!" He took out a thick letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Fakui with both hands.

Zhang Fakui took the letter and did not open it in a hurry, but asked the Japanese soldier named Kunio Saito with great interest: "Is the head of your Endo division going to surrender?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the General!"

Zhang Fakui was not surprised, but felt disbelief and a trace of vigilance.

Since the Nanjing Army launched a psychological offensive against the Japanese army, the effect has been remarkable. Every day and every night, a large number of Japanese troops surrendered to the Nanjing Army, but most of them were National Volunteers. The highest-ranking officer was only a lieutenant commander, and suddenly a lieutenant general and division head came. Obviously, "the progress is too great."

Zhang Fakui asked Saito calmly: "Tell me the specific situation!"

Saito seemed to have figured out how to answer Zhang Fakui's question a long time ago, and he talked eloquently: "Your Excellency, I was an employee of Dongbao Film Company before I was forced to enlist in the army. I often contact foreign information, so I know it well. The Japanese government's propaganda is just nonsense to fool the common people. As for the emperor, although he has a high status, he is also a human being, not a god.

I don't want to be a soldier at all, and I don't want to die on the battlefield for the emperor and the so-called Great Japanese Empire. In order to escape military service, I drank soy sauce for a year, hoping to make my body weak through this method, but in the end I was forced to serve as a soldier up.

The war has reached this point, and Japan’s end is already doomed. If the war continues, frontline soldiers like me will almost certainly die. I still have family members waiting for me to go home and reunite, so I am very afraid of death.

After your army airdropped leaflets to our army, many people picked them up and read them. I also read them carefully. After General Yamada learned of this, he strictly ordered not to read leaflets, let alone keep leaflets privately. All leaflets must be picked up and handed over. Burn it for the superiors, but I secretly hid a copy, because I have decided to run away and want to surrender to you, and many people are like me.

Just the day before yesterday, I secretly read the leaflets alone, and at the same time looked at the group photo of my family, and was about to run away for my family, but was seen by the military police, who immediately arrested me, declared me a 'traitor attempting treason', and was about to be shot Me, but this scene happened to be caught by the head of the division. The head of the division ordered the military police to hand me over to him. Then, the head of the division took me to a place where there was no one. He asked me seriously, "Saito, what are you doing?" I'm telling the truth, do you think Japan is doomed', I was scared, but I told the truth, I said 'Division Commander, yes, I think Japan is doomed', he asked me' As a Japanese, don’t you want to fight for Japan’, I mustered up the courage to answer, ‘If the Chinese army invaded Japan to destroy Japan and kill all the Japanese, then I would definitely fight to the end, but the Chinese army is not In order to destroy Japan and kill all the Japanese, it is meaningless for us to resist except to die in vain'.

The head of the division looked at me. After a while, he nodded and said, "It's very good that you have such an awareness. In fact, I also think so. If the Chinese army wants to destroy Japan and kill all Japanese, we will definitely To fight to the end, but the Chinese army is not going to do that, it is meaningless for us to fight to the end, it will only let a large number of innocent people die worthlessly', he also said, "[-] million pieces of jade is simply the idea of ​​a madman, so It will only destroy the Japanese nation and make the Japanese nation disappear forever in the world like the Huns, Khitans, and Xianbeis.

If it doesn't exist anymore, what's the point of having integrity? ’ He also said, ‘At this time, the Japanese people who put down their weapons will have a chance of safety and survival, and the Japanese people with weapons will not only fail to protect themselves, but will lead to destruction themselves’. Finally, he said to me, he wants to Give me a special mission to save more than 100 million Japanese in the southern part of the island of Hokkaido!"

Zhang Fakui narrowed his eyes: "You were sent here to report the news?"

Saito nodded, "Yes.

With the arrangement of the division commander, I was able to defect smoothly tonight, so I will hand over this letter to you, Your Excellency the General!"

Zhang Fakui opened the letter, and there were dozens of pages inside, the first one was a letter, which wrote:

Your Excellency General Zhang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, I am Saburo Endo, Commander of the No.60 Third Division of the Japanese Army. I have a clear enough understanding of the current war in the southern part of Hokkaido Island and the entire Japanese war. The continued resistance of the Japanese nation is tantamount to self-destruction Therefore, only by conforming to the general trend of the world can the Japanese nation survive and countless Japanese people survive.

Your army must be preparing to attack the Hakodate area right now. After the war starts, the Japanese army will surely lose, and your army will surely win. In the powerful offensive of your army, you died because of meaningless resistance. Since the outcome of the battle has already been determined, why waste countless lives?I would like to offer you the information on the deployment of our army in the southern part of Hokkaido Island, so that your army can make a quick decision, thereby reducing the loss of a large number of our personnel. I also hope that your Excellency, General, will take over the southern part of Hokkaido Island and capture a large number of our personnel. be treated humanely.

The other dozens of pages in the letter were drawings and information on the Japanese army's defensive deployment in the southern part of Hokkaido Island.

"Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, not to mention saving tens of thousands of people!" Zhang Fakui looked at Saito, "Your division commander really understands righteousness and has made great deeds! Of course, the premise of all this is You, your division commander, are not lying!"

"Absolutely not lying!" Saito repeated, "Your Excellency General, do we still have the capital to cheat you?"

"Is this what your division commander said?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, that's exactly what my division commander said!"

"Well, very good!" Zhang Fakui nodded, "Saito, you are very good. You are safe now and can live until the end of the war. I personally wish you can reunite with your family after the war!"

"Thank you, General, for your blessings. It is the wish of countless Japanese like me to reunite with my family!"

After Saito left, Zhang Fakui immediately convened more than a dozen senior generals to discuss the matter. Some generals believed that "the Japanese are very scheming, and it is very likely that they are cheating, trying to deceive our army and set a trap for our army. Deal the greatest blow to our army", but after repeated research, most people, including Zhang Fakui, believe that Saito and Endo Saburo are not lying, because the Japanese are not qualified to cheat at all.

Thanks to the large amount of accurate information provided by Saburo Endo, the Nanjing Army's attack on the southern part of Hokkaido Island became more targeted and prescribe the right medicine.

The southern part of Hokkaido Island, which the Japanese army occupied at this time, is a "C". Hakodate is located at the southernmost point of the "C". There is a coastal town of Kameda more than 20 kilometers north of Hakodate. The Japanese troops defending Kameda are on the way. It is Saburo Endo's 63rd Division.

Zhang Fakui judged that once the Nanjing Army attacked Kameda, Saburo Endo would definitely not resist, and would definitely avoid the battle passively or even "deliberately release water". In addition, the Nanjing Army already had absolute air and sea control. Therefore, Zhang Fakui's final battle plan was : The main force carried out a large-scale feint attack at the northernmost point of "C", attracting the attention of the Japanese army, luring the Japanese army to transfer all follow-up troops to the front line, leaving the Japanese army behind empty, and then dispatching a marine brigade and a main army division to take the navy The fleet launched a landing in the area of ​​Kameda by sea, went straight to the rear of the Japanese army, took Kameda quickly, and then took Hakodate non-stop.

Once the Japanese troops in Hakodate and Kameda were taken by the Nanjing army, the Japanese army in the southern part of Hokkaido Island would be flanked by the Nanjing army and fell into the situation of being attacked from the front and back, and then the whole army would be wiped out in a very short time.

On January 1, the Nanjing Army launched the last large-scale battle on the Hokkaido battlefield: the Battle of Zhisu (Zhisuke is Hakodate, and the Nanjing Army renamed it "Zhisuke" after capturing Hakodate, "Zhisuke" is The name of Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general and national hero of the Ming Dynasty).

Zhang Fakui's judgment was not wrong. Saburo Endo really wanted to surrender sincerely. It was precisely because of Saburo Endo's "secret surrender" that the Nanjing Army went smoothly after launching the offensive. General Yamada painstakingly managed the "final line of defense in Hokkaido" Almost overnight, it fell apart and collapsed across the board.

On the third day of the battle, the 74th Division of the Nanjing Army and the 11th Marine Brigade of the Navy landed in the area around Kameda through the naval fleet. Kameda was easily captured, and Shisuke was captured without the Japanese army recovering, and the Japanese army was completely drawn out.

When the Nanjing army captured Zhisuke, General Yamada himself was on the front line, not in Zhisuke, but his family was in the city of Shisuke, and all of them died unexpectedly.

The Nanjing Army did not kill General Yamada’s family members. General Yamada’s family committed suicide when the Nanjing Army entered the city. According to his account, his wife fed poison to the three children first. After the children died of poison, he wife shot herself.

After the news reached the ears of General Yamada who was on the front line, General Yamada remained expressionless, and then he quietly hid and shot himself. The reason why he chose to commit suicide was because he knew that Hokkaido Island was doomed to fall , he couldn't explain to the Tokyo headquarters, he might as well commit suicide and die for his country, at least he can get a posthumous reputation, and the second is because his wife and children have committed suicide, and he has nothing to love.

The suicide of General Yamada, the commander-in-chief, further accelerated the collapse of the Japanese army.

At the end of January, the Nanjing Army officially completed its capture and overall control of the Hokkaido area. One of the four main islands in Japan fell into the hands of the Nanjing Army, and Honshu Island was directly exposed to the Nanjing Army's troops.

When the news came, the top management in Tokyo was shocked and panicked.

The purpose of the Nanjing Army's attack on the Japanese mainland was to "slow down the war and delay the decision." Therefore, after taking down Hokkaido, the Nanjing Army did not rush to attack Honshu Island, but digested Hokkaido in a leisurely manner. On the one hand, it was built to attack Honshu Island. On the one hand, it is used as a test field for "conquering Japan".

After the capture of Hokkaido, about 120 million Japanese fell into the hands of the Nanjing Army. These Japanese can be divided into the following four categories:

[-]. Front-line soldiers of the Japanese regular army.

There are not many such Japanese, only about [-], and most of them died in suicide battles because of their stubborn thinking;

[-]. Soldiers in the second- and third-line troops of the Japanese regular army are basically recruits who have not been in the army for a long time.

There are quite a few such Japanese, forty to fifty thousand in total. Because their thinking is not particularly stubborn, many of them did not choose to engage in suicide combat and survived;

[-]. Members of the Japanese National Volunteer Team are basically civilians.

There are a large number of such Japanese, more than 80. They almost all go to the battlefield involuntarily. Even if their thinking is a bit stubborn, it is because of the brainwashing and bewitching of the Japanese military and political high-level and the momentary courage. The Nanjing Army has long been on the battlefield. Killed them to death, so that at the last moment they descended;

Fourth, Japanese civilians are basically old people and children.

There are also a large number of such Japanese, more than 30, who survived because they could not go to the battlefield.

For the Nanjing Army, it was the first time that so many Japanese were captured in the war at once, and it was of great significance. How to deal with and resettle these Japanese is a major matter that needs to be carefully considered, because this matter It is related to how China eventually conquered Japan.

If it is handled well, it can set an example for the 7000 million Japanese, which will be of great benefit in military, political, and propaganda. If it is not handled well, it will inevitably have a negative effect on the Nanjing Army's war.

Zhang Fakui did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he asked Jiang Weiguo himself for instructions immediately.

After repeated thinking, Jiang Weiguo came up with such a plan:

First, those who do not resist can live safely under the protection of the Nanjing Army, and those who resist will be killed;

Second, those who do not cooperate with the Nanjing Army are not punished, while those who cooperate with the Nanjing Army are rewarded;

Thirdly, the Nanjing Army collected local materials, used the town houses in the occupied area to carry out centralized resettlement and management of these Japanese, and provided them with daily necessities such as rations that could maintain their normal survival. Although the Nanjing Army gave them food, but Without big fish and big meat, even rice would not be enough, it would only keep them almost full.

The Nanking Army's gentle policy towards the Japanese does not mean that the Nanjing Army has to tighten its belt and give them supplies. Even if the Nanjing Army has enough supplies, it is the blood and sweat of the people's labor and production. How can the enemy people eat and drink in vain?According to this rule, if the Japanese in Hokkaido neither resist nor cooperate, they will have food and will not go hungry, but there is nothing else;

Fourth, the Japanese who cooperate with and assist the Nanjing Army will have additional rewards.

For example, young and middle-aged Japanese men and women can help the Nanjing Army to work, and thus get very considerable extra rewards. It is definitely not money, but the necessities of life such as food, clothing, and medicine that they need most at this time.

In other words, if you want to eat meat, you have to serve and help the Nanjing Army;

Fifth, the "highest level" performance of cooperating and assisting the Nanjing Army is to pick up a gun and go to the battlefield to fight side by side with the Nanjing Army.

The Nanjing Army will form a new Japanese army. Since Japan does not have a second government at this time, the Nanjing Army does not intend to support the establishment of a Japanese puppet regime (Jiang Weiguo intends to transform the Japanese government into a puppet regime after the war. After all, Japan The Prime Minister can be replaced by others, but the Emperor of Japan cannot be replaced by others), so this new Japanese army is "a people's army that belongs to the Japanese people and fights for the future of Japan and the Japanese nation, as well as the peace between China and Japan."

The Japanese who joined this new Japanese army and fought side by side with the Nanjing Army will be rewarded handsomely. In addition to materials, there is also the most precious thing-land.

After the war, Japan's social order will be reorganized, and Japan's land resources will also be redistributed. At this time, the Japanese who fought side by side with the Nanjing Army can preemptively obtain large tracts of land after the war.

For example, a Japanese young man may only have three to five acres of land in his family at this time, but if he joins the New Japanese Army now, then after the war, his family will be able to obtain dozens of acres of land at once. The amount of land acquired will also increase greatly.

Land is always the most desired thing of the people of all countries. The poor hope to have their own one-third of an acre of land, and the rich are also keen to hoard land, develop land, and use land to obtain more profits.

Jiang Weiguo has long played this point with proficiency and perfection.

Sure enough, when the Nanjing Army promulgated the plan designed by Jiang Weiguo, it immediately caused an uproar among the Japanese in the occupied area. Soon, Jiang Weiguo's move gave birth to the first "puppet army" in Japan's "3000-year history".

Chapter 793 The New Japanese Army

The full-scale contest between China and Japan was drawing to a close when the war progressed to 1945, and a delicate but crucial issue became increasingly prominent: How did Emperor Hirohito of the Showa era fight in the Sino-Japanese War and the entire Second World War? What kind of role did you play?Some people say that Hirohito is just a symbol and decoration similar to a puppet, like a god in a temple. Although he enjoys the worship of countless Japanese and is the supreme ruler of the Japanese Empire in name, he does not have much real power. The major national policies of the Japanese Empire are formulated by the head of the Japanese military government, and have nothing to do with Hirohito. Hirohito has very limited interference and influence in Japan's military and political affairs. He is even in a situation where he cannot help himself. In the middle of the state, he was controlled and dominated by the head of the Japanese military government, similar to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty who was controlled and dominated by the Cao Group in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to "hold the emperor to order the princes"; some people say that Hirohito is the highest real power of the Japanese Empire The controller, Japan's top military and political leaders are truly obeying, obeying, and loyal to him. Japan's major national policies and military and political affairs are also made by Hirohito himself. Hirohito is the number one Japanese war criminal.

Regarding this question, the top Chinese leaders led by Jiang Weiguo have little doubt: the answer is the second statement.

Hirohito is definitely not as "innocent", "innocent" and "transcendent" as he appears on the surface. This mortal who claims to be a god is, on the one hand, the supreme ruler of the Japanese Empire in name, and on the other hand, he is also the supreme real power of the Japanese Empire. The controller, he is definitely not a "puppet controlled and dominated by the head of the Japanese military government", he is the number one decision maker of Japan's foreign war and the number one Japanese war criminal.

Not only does Jiang Weiguo firmly believe in this, but he has enough evidence to prove it.

Ordinary Japanese naturally cannot see through the tricks of the Japanese royal family to fool the people and the Japanese government's tacit use of the emperor's "divine power" to control the people by false prestige, but Jiang Weiguo can completely see through it.

In Japan’s 700-year history, the emperor was indeed a puppet for most of the period. Until the shogunate era before the Meiji Restoration, the emperor was only a puppet of the Tokugawa family. The Chuan family regained power and made the power of Japan belong to the emperor. Just like the old routine of thousands of years, the Emperor Meiji will definitely have a group of loyal subordinates during the struggle to win the war and regain power. With the victory of Emperor Meiji, he became a real powerful minister of the empire, and gradually formed a trend that could not be lost. After the death of Emperor Meiji, Emperor Taisho succeeded to the throne. Emperor Taisho was weak, sick and mentally disturbed since he was a child. , he was unable to eradicate those elder clans who had gradually controlled Japan's military, political, financial and other national lifeline powers. It can be said that Emperor Taisho was a puppet king. The Emperor Hirohito of the Showa era is in charge. It is undeniable that in the early days after Hirohito came to power, Japan’s core real power was indeed not in his hands. Those veteran ministers and their descendants, cronies, and subordinates in his grandfather’s era have been developed and managed by two generations. Militarily, politically, and financially, powerful warlords, clansmen, and chaebol groups have been formed—this is why the young soldiers in the Japanese army have repeatedly launched rebellious coups. It was taken away, and this reason is really not made out of nothing.

As for Hirohito himself, he was not willing to accept that the country and empire built by his grandfather fell into the hands of others. He had already launched a deliberate plan to seize power when he was traveling around Europe before the emperor, and he won over Nagata Tieshan and Xiaohata. A new generation of young Japanese military officers represented by Toshishiro and Ningji Okamura, with these people as their team, gradually regained power on that day.

When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, although Hirohito had not completed the comprehensive plan to seize power at that time, he already had a lot of real power, and the war was also a great opportunity for him to seize power, because after the Japanese army was defeated, he had an excuse to take After the Japanese army won the battle, he had an excuse to promote those rookies in the army who were full of loyalty to the emperor's thoughts, so he quietly and subtly took back the highest power, and developed to the end of the current war. Hirohito is undoubtedly the highest real power holder in Japan.

Hirohito is the controller of the highest real power in Japan. This is beyond doubt. The next question is: the emperor without power must be able to do neither good nor bad. Hirohito is the emperor with power. Then, he uses the power in his hand Did you do something good or something bad?In other words, does he support Japan's war and invasion of other countries, or does he not support it?The answer is obvious, he is supportive.

In the early days of the Sino-Japanese war and the early days of the U.S.-Japanese war, Hirohito was indeed a little hesitant, and even made some remarks that he did not support the war, but his words and deeds definitely did not mean that he loved peace and opposed war. He was just afraid that Japan would not win and would It just brought disaster to Japan. After all, he has been abroad and knows the gap between Japan and Western powers, so he dare not fight with the United States. He also fears that the invasion of China will be interfered and sanctioned by the United States, so it seems He is timid and looks forward and backward. If Japan had the superpower of the United States, he would have ordered the Japanese army to occupy the entire earth with open fire.

Those who claim that "Hirohito is just a puppet controlled and dominated by the head of the Japanese military government" are mainly the head of the Japanese military government. Their remarks are like Cao Cao and the Cao family announcing to the world that "Han Xiandi has no real power, he is ruled by us. The puppet controlled and dominated by the Cao family” seems absurd, but it actually harbors evil intentions, because they know that Hirohito is the biggest culprit, but in order to preserve Japan’s “imperial order” and create opportunities for Japan to rise again after the war (Japan People think that Japan is not an ordinary country, but an "imperial kingdom ruled by the emperor". Once the emperor is gone, even if Japan can continue to exist, it will completely deteriorate. It is no longer "real Japan", and it is impossible to survive. rise again), they are willing to serve as abandoned "cars", so as to keep the "handsome" Hirohito. In fact, their sophistry also has a lot of decent "evidence". There is almost no record of Hirohito personally issuing orders in official documents. Hirohito’s instructions on major decisions are ambiguous and ambiguous... The reason for this phenomenon is also very simple: first, there are many monarchs in the world at this time However, among these emperors and kings, only the Japanese emperor claims to be "not a mortal, but a descendant of a god, a god who lives in the modern world", which is the only one in the world. One family, nothing else, which makes the king of Japan completely different from the kings of other countries. Because the kings of other countries are ordinary people, they can discuss state affairs with their ministers and generals like normal people, and they can have happiness like normal people. Anger, sorrow and joy, but because the Japanese king is a "god", he must maintain a "mysterious sense of mystery" and cannot easily show his face. Even if he shows his face, he must be as expressionless and taciturn as a god like a puppet. In the documents, there are very few records of Hirohito personally explaining something and giving a certain order. Even if there were some, they were destroyed by Japanese officials. Second, Hirohito is very shrewd. At that time, he had already thought about the retreat in the event of defeat. The Japanese government and the Japanese army could be discarded as scapegoats after the war, but the Japanese royal family, which was directly related to his personal rights and interests, could not be settled after the defeat. During the war, the Japanese royal family headed by him deliberately forged an illusion of "staying out of the matter". During the war, he himself seldom directly commanded the war. Prince Fushimi Gong Hiroshi was relieved of his military post before the outbreak of the war (these two princes and generals became the highest heads of the Japanese army and navy respectively because the Japanese royal family headed by Hirohito competed for power with the veteran ministers), hiding behind the scenes Conduct indirect war command, so that the outside world thinks that the war was only provoked by the Japanese government and the Japanese army, and has nothing to do with the Japanese imperial family. Even if the Japanese imperial family is involved, it is involuntary and "innocent".

Hirohito knew the truth that "disaster comes from the mouth". In order to avoid being caught with evidence of his words after the war, he rarely spoke.

It can be seen that Hirohito is actually a very cunning person.