Supreme commander of the allied forces

The supreme Commander of the allied forces , ( SCAP ) is the title of the general Douglas MacArthur during the Occupation of Japan after the Second world war. Although there were others supreme Commander of allied the, the title of SCAP per was given only to the MacArthur general.

To the Japan, one says rather GHQ , SCAP also indicating the administrations of occupation, of which a team of a few hundreds of civil and military personnel of the US Army. Some wrote an outline of the Constitution of Japan, that the Parlement of Japan ratified with some amendments.

The forces Australia, British, Indian, Canadian and New Zealand placed under the command of the SCAP depended on a under-command, the Occupying forces of the British Commonwealth.

As supreme commander of the allied forces in Japan, Mac Arthur insisted that the emperor Hirohito remains in station to avoid a destabilization of the country. Several historians criticize the efforts which it carried out to exonerate the emperor and all the family members imperial implied in the control of the war of criminal continuations at the time of the Procès of Tokyo.

According to John Dower, “This countryside concluded to exonerate the Emperor of its responsibility with regard to the war did not know any limit. Hirohito was not only presented as being innocent of any formal action which could have made it likely of an inculpation like war criminal. It was transformed into a holy icon not taking even any moral responsibility with regard to the war.” According to Herbert Bix, “measurements really extraordinary companies by Mac Arthur to save Hirohito of a judgment as war criminal had an impact persisting and deeply distorting in the comprehension of Japanese with regard to the lost war.” and “several months before work does not begin from the Court, the highest subordinates of Mac Arthur worked to allot the ultimate responsibility for the attack for Pearl Harbor to Hideki Tojo.” Thus, “immediately on its arrival with Japan, (the sergeant-general) Bonner Fellers put itself at work to protect Hirohito from the part which he had played during and at the end of the war” and “allowed the principal war criminals to coordinate their version of the facts so that the Emperor escapes an inculpation.” .

Matthew Ridgeway succeeded MacArthur when this one was raised by the president Truman for Insubordination during the Guerre of Korea in April 1951. With the peace treaty of San Francisco, the station of SCAP disappeared.

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