Emperor Page #2

You know this country.

You love it.

You hate it.

Your thinking about it

has been dead on so far,

and I know you'll meet

their deadline,

because, like me,

you don't want those bastards

making our decisions for us.

The conclusion has to be ours.

Pardon the Emperor,

or depose and arrest him,

but make a decision.

Commit it to paper

for my consideration and approval.

You're right.

General, I have a Jeep for you.

I'll walk.

Ifs not safe.

On the night

of the 10th of March, 1945,

our bombers turned

the Japanese capital

into the largest crematorium

the world has ever known.

100,000 people were incinerated

in a single air raid.

The stench of burnt flesh

and rotting bodies still lingers.

This country is starving

and teetering on the edge

of total collapse.

It wouldn't take much

for their resentment

to ignite into revolt.

And the fate of the Emperor

could be just the spark.

Miss! Excuse me, miss.

You dropped these.

Thank you.

Keep it.

Let's do the Lindy!

Aya, let's go somewhere else.

Sorry, I didn't know

it would be so wild in there.

Let's dance here.

I've been wondering

how you got the nerve

to come so far

from home all alone.

Well, lam too,

how do you say...

outspoken for a Japanese girl.

Outspoken?

Is that a serious flaw?

Sir.

I checked the address

of her apartment in Tokyo.

It was hit in a bombing

three months ago.

The house was demolished.

She substituted

at a school near Shizuoka.

Contact her uncle,

General Kajima.

He'll know where she is.

Yes, sir.

Gentlemen,

our mission has changed.

We will investigate

the Emperor for war crimes.

The key players will go here.

We're dividing it

into three categories:

The military on this side,

Imperial staff,

and politicians.

Sir, the information you asked for.

All right.

We will detain and interrogate

as many as we can find.

Ma'am, do you speak English?

Tracking them down won't be easy.

Having a street address

is not much use

when whole streets

have disappeared

off the face of the Earth.

I don't anticipate

too much cooperation.

So these are the top

military commanders.

We now have 32 names.

These were the people that were

with the Emperor when the war started.

There's not enough time

to investigate them all.

There's no other way

to know which of them

might have critical information, sir.

None of our Japanese

so-called friends

are in the mix,

so they can't help us.

If our friends can't help us,

let's try our enemies.

They'll never turn

on their buddies, sir.

They have no incentive.

They might if it means

saving their Emperor.

Tojo was hand-picked by the Emperor

to be Prime Minister.

The order to attack Pearl Harbor

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