大和王朝：日本皇室的秘密历史

 这是《大和王朝：日本皇室的秘密历史》一书中的一段话，作者斯特林-西格雷夫，第205页。205:

"在亲自警告了裕仁之后，麦克阿瑟让费勒斯去救天皇。

天皇现在是他们的人质，所以他们必须把他留在王位上，以便从杠杆作用中获益。

与早期的 "抓捕皇帝 "不同，这次他是一个外来势力的人质。

皇室明白这一点，并认识到解除麦克阿瑟枷锁的唯一方法是让裕仁退位。

明仁皇太子在战争期间还是个孩子，不会受到同样的勒索。

撇开家庭利益不谈，许多日本人当时和后来都说，如果裕仁接受指责并退位，将战争罪责抛诸脑后，对国家会更好。

麦克阿瑟必须不惜一切代价防止退位。

他需要一个受到惊吓的裕仁，他将同意被改造成一个谦逊的民主人士。

天皇看起来越民主，仍有总统野心的麦克阿瑟就越有面子。

秘密利用裕仁将确保他作为美国驻日本的领事的成功。

美国公众只会看到麦克阿瑟作为引导裕仁走向西方民主的父亲形象而精心策划的形象。

从裕仁的合作中获利的不仅仅是麦克阿瑟。

华盛顿的官僚和政治家们。华尔街的金融家、日本官僚、黑帮和商业巨头，都与天皇的脖子有关系。皇位仍然有一种神奇的魅力，可以用来实现各种特殊效果"。

This is passage from the book The Yamato dynasty: the secret history of Japan's imperial family by Sterling Seagrave pgs. 205:

“Having warned Hirohito personally, MacArthur put Fellers to work saving the emperor. The emperor was now their hostage, so they had to keep him on the throne, to benefit from the leverage. Unlike earlier episodes of "capture the emperor" this time he was the hostage of an alien power. The imperial family understood this, and recognized that the only way to remove MacArthur's yoke was to get Hirohito to abdicate. Crown Prince Akihito, having been a child during the war, would not be vulnerable to the same extortion. Family interests aside, many Japanese said then and later that it would have been better for the country if Hirohito had accepted blame and abdicated, to put war guilt behind all of them. MacArthur had to prevent abdication at all costs. He needed a frightened Hirohito, who would agree to be made over as a humble democrat. The more democratic the emperor looked, the better MacArthur, who still entertained presidential ambitions, would look. Making secret use of Hirohito would assure his success as America's proconsul in Japan. The American public would only see the carefully staged image of MacArthur as a father figure guiding Hirohito to Western democracy. MacArthur was not alone in profiting from Hirohito's cooperation. Washington bureaucrats and politicians. Wall Street financiers, Japanese bureaucrats, gangsters and business magnates, all had a stake in the emperor's neck. The throne still had a magic cachet that could be used to achieve a variety of special effects”.