"But unlike the Italian and German cases, there was no dictator and the system was not the product of a well-defined, popular movement, but more a vague change of mood, a shift in the balance of power between the elite groups in Japanese society, and a consequent shift in national politics.... (Edwin O. Reischauer, The Japanese, Charles E. Tuttle, 1978)."

"General Tojo, the premier, has great power, but his authority in the Japanese government does not equal Roosevelt's in the United States nor Churchill's in England, to say nothing of Hitler's and Mussolini's ditatorships (Hillis Lory, quoted by Ben-Amy Shillony, ibid.)"

What about Hirohito? He was politically impotent like his father and grandfather. I would like you to read, if interested, Yoshimichi Moriyama's comments to Project-Syndicate. org/Noriel Roubini/Global Ground Zero in Asia.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nouriel-roubini-says-that-if-the-global-order-blows-up-the-detonation-will-occur-in-asia.

Hitler did not want to avoid war with Stalin. That was exactly what he and the Nazis wanted. They wanted to invade Eastern Europe and Russia and build Lebensraum, enslaving and exploitig the Slave people.

Japan wanted to avoid war with the United States. Contrary to the popular image of the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, it wanted to extricate itself from the quagmire of continetal war with China, though with some imperial interests assured. I would also like you to read Moriyam's comments to the Diplomat com./Paula Harrell/History Lessons for China and Japan. Moriayma is shown by two Chinese characters, not in the Roman alphabet.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/history-lessons-for-china-and-japan.

I would also like you to take interest in some more tidbits for this and read Yoshimichi Moriayma's four comments to YaleGlobal Online/Alistair Burnett/War Drums in Asia: Back to European Future?

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/war-drums-asia-back-european-future.

The summer next year will commemorate the 70th year of the end of the World War II. It is time to set us free from the distorted perception of the past. If you cannot set yourselves free, I would like you to liberate at least the Japanese