Hirohito was the head of state under the Japanese constitution during before and during WW II. It is pretty clear that the war crimes trials in Japan were orch

Hirohito was the head of state under the Japanese constitution during before and during WW II. It is pretty clear that the war crimes trials in Japan were orchestrated to protect the emperor from being charged: >...According to historian Herbert Bix, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers "immediately on landing in Japan went to work to protect Hirohito from the role he had played during and at the end of the war" and "allowed the major criminal suspects to coordinate their stories so that the emperor would be spared from indictment."[32] Bix also argues that "MacArthur's truly extraordinary measures to save Hirohito from trial as a war criminal had a lasting and profoundly distorting impact on Japanese understanding of the lost war" and "months before the Tokyo tribunal commenced, MacArthur's highest subordinates were working to attribute ultimate responsibility for Pearl Harbor to Hideki Tōjō."[33] According to a written report by Shūichi Mizota, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai's interpreter, Fellers met the two men at his office on March 6, 1946, and told Yonai, "It would be most convenient if the Japanese side could prove to us that the emperor is completely blameless. I think the forthcoming trials offer the best opportunity to do that. Tōjō, in particular, should be made to bear all responsibility at this trial."[34][35] >...Justice Henri Bernard of France argued that the tribunal's course of action was flawed due to Hirohito's absence and the lack of sufficient deliberation by the judges. He concluded that Japan's declaration of war "had a principal author who escaped all prosecution and of whom in any case the present Defendants could only be considered as accomplices"[15] and that a "verdict reached by a Tribunal after a defective procedure cannot be a valid one." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribuna...