Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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Tojo Was the Face of the Japanese War Effort
The emperor was the face of the Japanese war effort and not even completely unfairly. He spoke a much different kind of Japanese as normal people did, like almost like a noble dialect that normal people had never heard their emperor speak before. There is no surviving evidence to implicate him but at a minimum, he knew about it. Even Hirohito's younger brother, Prince Mikasa Takahito, had served as a staff officer in nanking after it had begun.
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