Why did General MacArthur keep the Japanese Emperor Hirohito after the Japanese surrender in WWII? Why did MacArthur choose to set up a a constitutional monarchy rather than a regular republic ?
2006-12-12 11:07:59 · 6 answers · asked by Heather K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The peoples attachment to the emperor was too strong to do anything else. So, a constitutional monarchy was a good compromise.
2006-12-12 11:10:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The emperor was more than a king to the Japanese, he was a deity, a god. MacArthur wisely believed to remove the emperor would be to hinder rather than help the Japanese recover and become a democracy.
MacArthur did make Hirohito appear and speak to the Japanese, which was enough to bring him down a peg from godhood. He became an emperor in name only, much like the queen of England is a queen in name only, and has only ceremonial authority.
2006-12-12 11:15:34 · answer #2 · answered by David S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Hirohito was a puppet dictator. During the war, Hideki Tojo manipulated the Japanese people by manipulating Hirohito.
After the war, MacArthur followed Tojo's example because he felt it would be the easiest way to keep the Japanese people under control (and also inflict the least amount of damage and disorder to the peaceful aspects of their culture). So, Hirohito was left in a figurehead position so that we could manipulate him, in turn manipulating the Japanese. Our intervention was gradually withdrawn as the legislature component of the constitutional monarchy proved itself able to govern the country without posing a threat to any other countries. After that, Hirohito sanctioned whatever the legislature did, and the modern Japanese culture resulted.
2006-12-12 11:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by almintaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 04:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by ridinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MacArthur didn't keep him ... they let him go home later that day!
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2006-12-13 10:06:23 · answer #6 · answered by rocket4steph 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋