1. Hirohito; Leader or Bystander
... replied, "If you cannot control your troops you ought to quit."" The troops carried out the emperor's orders to quell the rebellion on February 29, 1936 and by the afternoon the rebellion was over. With events out of control, the strength of Emperor Hirohito may have come just too late to control his ever rebellious army. It was on July 7, 1937 that tensions between ... with regards to the Doolittle Raid and the Battle of Coral Sea get in the way of his judgment but whatever the case may be, the United States established its naval superiority over Japan. It was Hirohito's favoritism of ...
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