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Originally Posted by Jim O
I agree. It was 100% the correct decision. While Hirohito was "with" the militarists, he was the Emperor and he was not the government. Would the Nazis have tried King George for bombing Dresden? I doubt it.
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Well technicly as the head of state he responsible to all the actions of the men under him, althought it's debatable how many real influence he had during WWII (I always saw is position in WWII similar to the one of Wilhelm II in WWI, an abosulute monarch who loses much of it's power in favour of the military elite).
Of coure no matter if he was guilty or not, if the American had put him on trial it's likely that the occupetion of Japan wouldn't gone so peacefully.