Toni’s Reviews > Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan > Status Update

"No country had suffered more from Japan's aggression than China: and no Allied war leader understood the close connection between the Japanese monarchy and militarism better than did Chiang Kai-shek. But Chiang also believed Hirohito to be a check on the spread of Communism, and so opted not to indict."
Interesting.

please god release me from my misery

By fighting an "incident" rather than a war, Japan could enable American industrial and raw-material exporters to circumvent the U.S. Neutrality Act of 1935 and 1937-a profitable arrangement that American business, in the grip of renewed depression, was eager to continue.

Guess the Americans have always favoured economic matters over morality and international relations.

1921: PM Hara is assassinated, Emperor Yoshihito is frail of health... time for Hirohito to start his regency and stir up the waters.