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Japan's Imperial Conspiracy is a nonfiction historical work by David Bergamini. Its subject is the role of Japanese elites in promoting Japanese imperialism and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ; in particular, it examines the role of Crown Prince and Emperor Hirohito in the execution of Japan's Imperial conquest, and his role in postwar Japanese society.

Controversial upon its publication, as well as in the years since, Bergamini concludes that the conventional conclusion of historical analyses — that the Imperial household was largely powerless and not culpable or particularly supportive of the imperial adventures, blame for which is assigned to military elites — is mistaken. Instead, he asserts that the internal political fighting necessary to gain support for imperialism was a long-premeditated plan supported by all sectors of the elite and especially by members of the imperial family.

The reason given as to why the American occupiers provided immunity for Crown Prince Hirohito , and furthermore allowed for the continuation of the institution of the Emperor, is that its support was sought for the purposes of fighting Communism and the nearby Soviet Russia. Bergamini, born in Tokyo and fluent in Japanese, draws his conclusion from a variety of novel sources, but gives prominence to his interpretation of various diaries kept by involved figures.

Reviews by both participants in the war, war tribunals, as well as historians, range from effusive praise e. The Social Troubles Institute , Social Troubles Research Center or simply Colonization Academy , which Bergamini alleged was founded in , was a think tank dedicated to future conquest plans on the Asian mainland, and their political implications.

It had the patronage of Crown Prince Hirohito and was set up on land that had once been the Imperial Meteorological Observatory. Bergamini describes the Institute as a secret indoctrination center protected by extensive security measures for select younger sons, of politicians, Japanese nobility and militarist supporters, who desired to participate in fulfilling the dreams of Imperial conquest harbored among elements of Japan's aristocracy.

The first draft of Japanese conquest plans for world domination were traced by Bergamini to the institute.