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Was Hirohito's reputation intentionally 'laundered' by Allied forces during/after the second world war? That is, as I understand it, Tojo was portrayed as the 'mastermind' behind Japanese imperial aggression, contemporaneously; was this a misunderstanding (willful or otherwise)?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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