A Nagoya University professor is working on a book about the life of the late U.S. Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers, who played a major role in absolving Emperor Hirohito (known posthumously as Emperor Showa) of responsibility for Japan’s wartime aggression across Asia.
The movie "Emperor," currently showing in domestic theaters, portrays Fellers, the main character, as a kind person who was sympathetic toward Japan. But Haruo Iguchi, a professor of international politics at Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Environmental Studies, described him as a “tremendously ambitious man who posed some danger to both Japanese and American governments.”
During World War II, Fellers served as military secretary for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, and traveled to Japan with him after its surrender in August 1945.