| Bhäraté: | Well, Hirohito was not my hero. |
| Daiki: | Most people will probably never know the actual man behind the symbol. |
| Chariya: | It's meaningless to discuss the Japanese emperor without also considering the broader historical context. Shortly after his birth, some type of collision between Japan and the West seemed inevitable. |
| An-Yi: | That sounds like a glib endorsement of the atrocities perpetuated under Hirohito's name. |
| Bhäraté: | Fascism and colonialism have certainly caused unspeakable misery. The only point I would make is that we should not feel self-righteous: every civilization is guilty of misdeeds. |
| Chariya: | Yeah. Too many people point their fingers at others for sins which – at some point in time – they have committed themselves. |
| Daiki: | On hindsight, Hirohito seems to have many of the contradictions inherent in all humans. At various times in his life, he was a militarist, politician, marine biologist, and a retiring old man. Was he not a mosaic? |
