Emperor Hirohito was uneasy with Japan's drift to war in the 1930s and 1940s but was too weak to alter the course of events, according to a declassified British government assessment of the Japanese monarch upon his death in January 1989.
Debate has often raged over the extent to which Emperor Hirohito was culpable for Japan's wartime past with some critics claiming he was complicit in the atrocities.Writing a few weeks after the monarch's death, John Whitehead, Britain's ambassador to Japan, stated, "A man of stronger personality than Hirohito might have tried more strenuously to check the…READ FULL ARTICLE
