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You know the Emperor well.
As well as anyone can know His Majesty.
Was he against the war?
His Majesty is against all wars.
He is a pacifist by nature, very gentle.
Yet he gave permission for Pearl Harbor.
When Tojo and the militarists took power,
His Majesty was drawn in.
It was a national delusion.
Could he have stopped it?
I don't know.
I was removed from power by then.
Three months before Pearl Harbor,
I opened a secret channel to President Roosevelt.
I said I would meet him anywhere to find a way to avoid a conflict.
We still could have stopped it,
but it was not in the interest of the militarists.
So he does bear responsibility for starting the war?
It's not black and white issue, General.
Millions of people died in his name.
Your skies were filled with kamikazes.
Atrocities were committed every day as he expanded his empire,
invading, conquering, decimating.
You incinerated two of our cities,
turning our children into shadows on the walls.
We are both guilty.
Yes, we seized territory in China,
but did not Great Britain, even Portugal, precede us?
Yes, we took Singapore and the Malaya,
but we took it from the British.
We did not take the Philippines from the Filipinos,
but from the Americans,
who themselves took it from the Spanish.
If it is an international crime to take territory by force,
who convicted the British, French, Dutch, and American leaders?
Nobody.
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