The suffering brought by the Second World War was profound, and after a desperate struggle with the fascist regime, the anti-fascist alliance of the whole world sacrificed tens of millions of lives and incalculable property, which made the balance of victory fall to its own side.
Japan in 1945 was already a crossbow, the Nazi governments of Italy and Germany had surrendered, Hitler committed suicide in the bunker, but the Japanese were still fighting beasts, even if they lost most of the territory they occupied during the invasion, but the Tojo Hideki cabinet still advocated "home war" and put forward the slogan of "one hundred million jade fragments".
In the face of such an iron-headed Japanese, the United States and other Allies also know that according to the Attitude of the Japanese brainwashed by fanatical militarism, it is very likely that this group of crazy people will really do this, then the Allies will inevitably pay a huge price for conquering the Japanese mainland, in order to speed up the pace of Japan's surrender, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The Emperor of Japan was finally willing to let go of his arrogant golden mouth, and announced in a radio broadcast facing all of Japan: "Accept the Potsdam Proclamation designated by the Allies and surrender unconditionally." But did Japan really surrender unconditionally? In fact, they had secretly made a shameless offer not to surrender if the Allies did not agree to a deathly battle.
This condition is to preserve the system of the Japanese emperor. Before the end of the war in Japan, many people demanded that the Japanese emperor pay the price of starting the war, go to the military court to stand trial, and in August 1945 the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan, and the situation in Japan became more dangerous.
Therefore, the Japanese government, which was on the verge of defeat, sent representatives to the neutral swiss churches in China, the United States, britain, and the Soviet Union, and expressed their acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation, but only on one condition, that is, "the above-mentioned proclamation does not contain any demands that undermine the power of His Majesty the Emperor as the supreme ruler." ”
Upon receiving the news from Japan, the Americans reacted quickly, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman gave a directive in which he replied to Japan: "From the beginning of surrender, the power of the Japanese Emperor and the Japanese government to rule the country must be at the behest of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in order to take the steps he deems appropriate to implement the terms of surrender." ”
Although this sentence does not explicitly agree with the views of the Japanese representative, it is almost equivalent to tacitly agreeing to retain the Japanese emperor. Chiang Kai-shek and the British, who had experience in Japan at that time, also believed that the Japanese emperor was very important to all The Japanese people, and if the emperor was tried and executed, it might plunge post-war Japan into complete chaos and insurrection.
Considering that the Japanese Emperor played little role in the course of the war and did not participate directly in the war, the Allies agreed to this condition proposed by the Japanese.
In addition, the Americans also played their own small calculations, they retained the Japanese emperor, is bound to be able to get the gratitude of the Japanese, in the future struggle with the Soviet Union, Japan will be able to stand on the side of the Americans to fight with them, holding this little ninety-nine, the United States also turned a blind eye to the Japanese emperor.
Although the Emperor of Japan escaped the disaster and was spared from trial by the War Tribunal, it was only the result of the trial of the situation in various countries, otherwise if the crime was really discussed, the mere provocation of war would have made Showa dozens of gallows. The war crimes committed by Emperor Showa will never be washed away, and only by remembering history will the people of today's countries not repeat the mistakes of the past.