The Japanese were heavily indoctrinated to view the Emperor as their god-king. That was one reason the occupation went so well, because when MacArthur took over

The Japanese were heavily indoctrinated to view the Emperor as their god-king. That was one reason the occupation went so well, because when MacArthur took over, the Japanese generally treated him as a god-king, which made his policies much easier to implement. https://books.google.com/books?id=iuA-ZOCpTfIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT431#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=iuA-ZOCpTfIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT...