In January, 1946, a man came to the headquarters of the American occupation government of Japan and claimed to be Japan’s true emperor. Who was he, why did he do this, and how does his story connect to an obscure figure from a civil war that happened more than 500 years earlier?
Sources
Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII
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