This week: the question of whether Hirohito would remain emperor of Japan or be replaced with “Emperor Kumazawa” was, in fact, decided before the Southern Court claimant had ever gone public. So why was the idea of removing Hirohito never taken seriously, and what did Kumazawa do once it became clear he was never going to sit on the Crysanthemum Throne? And how, strangely, does this all tie back to a Geocities era webpage about alternative medicine?
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Sources
Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII
Kelley, Frank and Cornelius Ryan. The Star-Spangled Mikado.
Nancho.net in all its glory
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