SHOWA : CHRONICLES OF a FALLEN GOD: Paul-Yanic Laquerre Paul-Yanic Laquerre
Sexual slavery, human experimentation, mass murder, use of bacteriological and chemical weapons, the crimes committed in the name of Emperor Showa are countless. Still seen in the West as a puppet emperor used by unscrupulous military leaders to further their expansionist designs, Emperor Showa, generally known in the West by his personal name, Hirohito, remains one of the most controversial figures in modern history. Since 1946, the image of a nervous little man wearing a badly cut civil servant’s cardigan and awkwardly saluting his subjects with a wave of his hat, an intellectual cut off from the real world, emerging from his laboratory only to ratify the decisions made in his name by a mainly faceless military clique, dominated the collective imagination. Historians wishing to confr...
