Office of the Historian

894.001 Hirohito/11–1848: Airgram

The Acting Political Adviser in Japan (Sebald) to the Secretary of State

secret
Tokyo, November 18, 1948.
[Received December 1—11:10 a. m.]

A–229. Mr. Terasaki Hidenari, an adviser to the Emperor of Japan, called upon me at his request today and informed me for my private information that the Emperor of Japan had, on November 12, 1948, written to General MacArthur to the effect that he has decided definitely not to abdicate notwithstanding the sentences imposed upon the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.1

Sebald
  1. The sentences were announced November 12; see despatch 743, November 23, from Tokyo, p. 898.↩