The Laughing Man

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As a basic rule, MacArthur’s propaganda specialists observed a wartime policy of not provoking the enemy by attacking the emperor.8 This was consistent with general U.S. war policy, which opposed military attacks against imperial sites or even the verbal denigration of Emperor Hirohito. Although the stated rationale for such restraint was that the Japanese regarded their sovereign with religious awe and would be even more inclined to fight to the death if he were attacked, other considerations were at work. As an internal report by the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) noted in July 1944, ...more
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