Is that true that Hirohito asked how many teachers were alive after bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Answer 1

There were some political conflicts about the teachers after the surrender of Japan. The American Occupation authority had a total belief in the total transformation of Japan from a totalitarian militaristic state into a democratic one. Japan had to reform the education but they considered not teaching that part of Japan's history. That was when Hirohito had his teachers accounted.

A host of policies were implemented by the Occupation Authority to eliminate militarism and ultra-nationalism from the educational system: right-wing teachers and educators were forced to resign from their jobs, the use of militaristic and nationalistic 18 Beauchamp and Vardaman, Japanese Education Since 1945: A Documentary Study, p. 51. 19 Beauchamp, Windows on Japanese Education, p. 29. Yuan Cai 187 textbooks were banned in schools, the teaching of moral education (Shushin), Japanese history and geography were eliminated and all military training at the schools was suspended. The Americans accomplished the demolition of the physical vestiges of the pre-war militaristic education system swiftly; but the creation of a democratic Japan and a nation that 'would never want to go to war again' was a far more intricate task to achieve.

In order to democratize the Japanese education system, the United States Education Mission composed of a very distinguished panel of American scholars and educators was sent to Japan to advise General MacArthur on the delicate issue of education reform.