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To a lot of Japanese in 1945, their emperor was like Jesus is to us.
So the American military wanted to keep the emperor. You were never going to get the Japanese military to comply to surrender terms without the emperor.
Roosevelt and Truman agreed too. The emperor was to keep his job.
The first drafts of the Potsdam Declaration said the emperor could keep his job.
This was later removed.
Why was the part of the Potsdam Declaration where the emperor could keep his job removed?
So the American military wanted to keep the emperor. You were never going to get the Japanese military to comply to surrender terms without the emperor.
Roosevelt and Truman agreed too. The emperor was to keep his job.
The first drafts of the Potsdam Declaration said the emperor could keep his job.
This was later removed.
Why was the part of the Potsdam Declaration where the emperor could keep his job removed?
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