Above all, however, it was General MacArthur's decision not to have the emperor indicted for war crimes, nor even allowed to abdicate, that did more than anything to heal the Japanese psyche.
"We don't want to abdicate that promise," says Cristián Larroulet, the president's chief-of-staff.
To abdicate that investment and opportunity would seem a terrible shame, but it doesn't mean we have to see Europeans as enemies we have to vanquish".
If companies such as Facebook abdicate that responsibility, it suggests government intervention is needed to prevent an internet-powered surge in racial hatred.
"In a nation of 1.3 billion people, with the complex issues they face, with such resource deprivation, would it be wise for the government to abdicate that responsibility to S.O.E.'s?" he asked, using the abbreviation for state owned enterprises.
"It has always been the judicial branch's role" to serve as a check on abuses, he began, but the President had asked them "to abdicate that role here, to reinstate the executive order without meaningful judicial review, and to throw this country back into chaos".
