Segment from Watch The Throne

Royal Pain

Japanese Emperor Hirohito was transformed from one of the three great enemies of the United States during WWII into a kinder, gentler monarch after the war. Historian Noriko Kawamura tells how General MacArthur and a PR campaign changed the way we saw Hirohito, but may not have changed the actual man.

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