[paganel]

The Japanese Army and the Japanese politicians never really paid for their WW2 crimes and the crimes committed prior to that (the invasion of China started in 1937, 1931 if you include Manchuria). They even left the Japanese emperor in place after WW2.

[whythre]

Hirohito was not Adolf Hitler and the idea that he should have been deposed is such a dumb take. The Emperor was a symbolic figurehead who helped unite and reconcile postwar Japan.

[paganel]

> The Emperor was a symbolic figurehead who helped unite and reconcile postwar Japan.

Yes, the symbol of the Nanjing Massacre.

> and reconcile postwar Japan.

That was the US's doing, Japan still functions by the constitution imposed by MacArthur.

Also, more generally, the fact that people in the West are white-washing guys like Hirohito is a very big part of why we're in the current geopolitical mess. It would help if, for once, the West would admit: "yeah, we let that killer in place because it suited our geo-political interests back in the day". But were they (the Westerners) to do that then we wouldn't have blog-posts like this one here which totally goes over Japan's war-crimes (and does not mention Hiroshima nor Nagasaki, although it doesn't forget to mention that China, Russia and North Korea now have nukes).