Exposing the Hirohito Hoax

Many of us grew up on the lies that Japanese Emperor Hirohito (1901-89), the man whose kingdom invaded most of Eastern Asia in the early 20th century, was a mild mannered, poem writing, marine biologist who was generally aloof from the goings on of his generals, admirals, and leading bureaucrats as they prosecuted their wars in Asia. This is yet another CIA lie peddled by establishment historian prostitutes.

 

The truth of the matter is that Hirohito was perhaps the most barbaric, ruthless, vile ruler since the time of ancient Assyria, an empire well known for its terrifying cruelty. The pictures painted by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, authors of Gold Warriors, a chronicle about the vast plunder Japan took from its vanquished foes, is anything but sympathetic to the myopic propaganda peddled by the establishment.

 

The first point which the Seagraves make in the opening chapters of their book is the earliness of the Japanese attacks on Asia. World War 2 did not represent the opening act of Japanese aggression. Rather it started at least at the time of the Sino-Russian War of 1905, if not earlier.

 

In fact the Japanese had made it a high state priority to completely efface Korean nationality and identity from the earth, towards which end they butchered and enslaved millions of Koreans, to say nothing of robbing them of their financial and cultural treasures.

 

The authors also cover in considerable detail the rapes of China, Indonesia, Singapore, and other places where the Japanese armies spread their terrors. The brutal physical raping and disembowelments of civilians was as common among the Japanese soldiers as ordering a pastrami sandwich in a New York deli would be.

 

But for the Seagraves the main point of their narrative was how systematic and thorough the Japanese were in stealing thousands of years of cultural material history from their victims, especially if it were made of gold, silver, or platinum - and it wasn't just precious metals they stole. They pillaged prodigious, mind boggling quantities of precious stones.

 

At each of the episodes, statements are made which document the involvement of the Japanese royal family in the minute details of these conquests which covered at least a 50 year period. As the supreme being of the Japanese state and people, it is a laugh to suppose that Hirohito did not have a complete grasp and sanction of the methods used to subjugate foreign nations.

 

But the Seagraves give the specific example of Prince Takeda, a grandson of the Meiji emperor, who related that certain vile acts he performed were at the command of Hirohito.

 

The background of this episode is the feverish pace and secretive atmosphere under which the royals built vast, voluminous store houses in the Philippines for their plunders, one of many places where the Japanese hid their extraordinary booties. The royal family, not the least of whom was Prince Chichibu, personally supervised the construction of secret repositories for holding the treasures. So paranoid and scrupulous were they that they always ordered the slave laborers and Japanese military personnel involved in the construction of these storage sites into them at the conclusion of construction in order to bury them alive so that the secrets about the gold would not emerge. There were at least 175 of these secret locations in the archipelago alone.

 

At one point Prince Takeda told his valet Ben that he had no choice but to obey the commands of the emperor. This plunder the Japanese royal family saw as its own possession, something to which no commoner was entitled. The raping of Asia was for the personal endowment of the Japanese royal family. Not only did they steal vast quantities of priceless art and antiquities, but they destroyed them as well.

 

This vile family exists today and continues to hold nearly all of the gold, silver, platinum, precious stones, and art which it stole from Asia in the first half of the 20th century.

 

But the main point of our short essay is to document, thanks to the Seagraves, that the Japanese emperor was personally involved in the rape, subjugations, methods, and plunder of eastern Asia. He may have been adept at playing the idiot savant, but he made Genghis Khan look like a spinster Baptist Sunday School teacher.

 

Reference

Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Gold Warriors, New York, Verso, 2005

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Research Note: Testing Claims of Douglas Dietrich

In researching the culpability of Franklin Roosevelt in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we came across an interesting character by the name of Douglas Dietrich who claimed that

·         Durham White Stevens (1851 – 1908) was an American dictator of Korea after the American Civil War

·         the Japanese had developed an atomic bomb by the end of World War 2

·         the United States sued the Japanese for peace to end World War 2

We reject all of these statements as either false or unsupportable from the historical record.

Dietrich makes many other unconventional statements of equal controversy, and does so in a convincing, at times erudite, fashion. He often challenges his listeners to do the research themselves to prove that he is right. We took up the challenge only to report disappointment for our revisionist historian.

 

Much of Dietrich’ authority rests upon his alleged access to massive quantities of American official archive documents he was assigned to destroy while a librarian assistant at the Presidio during the 1980s. He states that these documents stretched back to the Spanish American War and were backlogged at the military base by incompetent military and civilian staff who refused to the do the dirty work of destroying the records. Through various connections as a military brat, he obtained his position at the age of 16.

 

While his stories and analyses are quite entertaining, they often lack any factual basis, or rest upon dubious evidence - Durham Stevens being one such example. More specifically, Dietrich’s claims about Stevens are made to demonstrate that Americans have been brainwashed or its leaders have hidden the truth about their nation’s imperial aggrandizement in Asia, specifically Korea.

 

Stevens was an obscure American diplomat who served in the State Department in Tokyo after graduation from law school in 1873. In 1883 the Japanese government hired him for its legation in Washington, DC. In 1904 Japan appointed him as foreign advisor to the Emperor of Korea, during which time the New York Times reported that he was known by some as the “American dictator of the Hermit Kingdom.” While visiting San Francisco in 1908, he was assassinated by a group of Korean students from which wounds he died.

 

The point is that Stevens assumed his Korean post in 1904 – not in the early 1870s as Dietrich reports. More importantly, Stevens was not an American dictator of Korea installed by the American government in a takeover of the country. Rather, he was working for the Japanese when he earned the sobriquet as American dictator, a moniker which the New York Times reported to illustrate the influence he had in Korean affairs on behalf of the Japanese.

 

Turning to the subject of Japan and World War 2, Dietrich cites an article in the October 3, 1946 Atlanta Constitution reporting that Japan had developed an atomic bomb which it had tested in Konan Korea at the close of World War 2. The author David Snell cites a pseudonymous Japanese Captain Wakabayashi who related details about the Japanese atomic program which had been moved to Korea to avoid the American B29 air raids. Five days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Japanese detonated their bomb at sea to avoid capture by the Soviets, according to the report filed by Snell who was working with the Army’s 24^th Criminal Investigation Detachment.

 

Snell reported his findings to the US Army intelligence team in Korea which censored details of the information which were contained in the article.

 

A book entitled Hungnam and the Japanese Atomic Bomb: Recent Historiography of a Postwar Myth by Walter Grunden reviews the claims of the article in detail, along with a review of the Japanese nuclear program, to demonstrate that the story is false.

 

If Dietrich wishes to credibly contradict the findings of this book and other researchers who failed to substantiate Wakabayashi's story, he needs to produce evidence of greater weight than this 1946 newspaper article.

 

Dietrich’s larger point that the Japanese detonated the bomb to intimidate the Soviets fails because they occupied the northern part of the Korean peninsula in spite of the alleged detonation.

 

Regarding the final assertion by Dietrich – that the United States sued Japan for peace – we only offer our pity. The United States has occupied Japan since the end of the war and MacArthur’s vice regency of the island is well documented. The emperor of Japan did not step down because of the Japanese triumph in the war.

References

New York Times, D W Stevens Shot by Korean Assassin, March 24, 1908

Snell, David (3 October 1946). "Japan Developed Atom Bomb; Russia Grabbed Scientists". Atlanta Constitution (cited in Wikipedia)

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-to-contain-russian-ambitions.html

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