This man wasn't prosecuted for war crimes, unlike his PM Tojo.
This man said, "It couldn't be helped" in a 1975 press conference after he emerged from secrecy; that year, this subject of a notorious photograph with Douglas Macarthur visited the US for the first time. His government created Unit 731. The Showa Restoration attempted to bring him back to power. This leader established the boycott of the Yasukuni Shrine. This man famously avoided using the word "surrender" in his Jewel Voice Broadcast, just a year after he urged his subjects to commit suicide following Leyte Gulf. This man wasn't prosecuted for war crimes, unlike his PM Tojo. For 10 points, name this father of Akihito, the World War II emperor of Japan.
This man said, "It couldn't be helped" in a 1975 press conference after he emerged from secrecy; that year, this subject of a notorious photograph with Douglas Macarthur visited the US for the first time.
Hirohito [or Showa before mention]