His older daughter Harumi gave an interview to the Japan Times in 1982. ''Daughter's Eye View of Lt. Gen Ishii, Chief of Devil's Brigade'', Japan Times, 29 August 1982, in which she explained the deal between MacArthur and her father.
It appears that everybody in the family, including his two brothers Takeo and Mitsuo, who were working as directors in Pingfan, lived a peaceful life.
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Yes, Hirohito had real power in World War 2. Historians such as Akira Fujiwara and Peter Wetzler, based on the primary sources and the monumental work of Shiro Hara have produced evidence suggesting that the Emperor worked through intermediaries to exercise a great deal of control over the military and was neither bellicose nor a pacifist, but an opportunist who governed in a pluralistic decision-making process. American historian Herbert P. Bix argues that Emperor Shōwa might have been the prime mover of most of the events of the two wars.