Lets look at the American atrocities on Japan

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/

"Apologist, thy name is scum"

The Japanese were in the process of negotating, Truman's bombs were inhuman and a cowardly act. Tojo give the light that he was going to sign the treaty. You're talking pure nonsense.

Well said

Don't forget the Japanese moved into Hiroshima thousands of children into this military target as a deterrent to the USA bombing it

YOU should do your research.

大日本帝国 was at that time a totalitarian empire. In the movie, -MIYAVI- character (Watanabe) wrongly refer to the empire as "Japan". He should have said "The Empire of Japan". It was usually refered as 帝国 (teikoku, empire) in Japan at that time during the Showa jidai, as the elders refer to that period.

And why this Matthew C. Perry person irrupt on Japan during the Tokugawa bakufu? I say capitalism and greed.

All that you wrote about women and children fanatics of Shodadenko Hirohito is false, the people of Japan wanted the war to end.
And you should be ashamed of saying that the atomics bombs were justified. People full of hatred against other cultures they don't know and don't understand is the most dangerous.

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Thank you!! Another person with a brain

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Instead of googling you should try some documentaries.
Those horrible atrocities committed to other human beings in Manchuria, makes me sick, but you know what? It makes me even sicker that USA government gave all those criminals immunity as long as they gave them (give to USA) all the data collected in the 731 Butai.
USA did not allow Russia to prosecute those criminals, because they wanted the data. SICK!

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I was just about to post this, albeit months after you did! Well done! OP also ought to Google the "Rape of Nanking" or the "Bataan Death March" if he feels the Americans committed more atrocities than the Japanese. Or just Google "Japanese Atrocities WWII".

For the record, I make no judgment on Nagasaki or Hiroshima. History has done that. I think all of it was tragic.

You know, when I was in the military stationed in Korea years ago I saw a T-shirt stand with a particularly acerbic depiction. The art on the shirt had a map of the Japanese Islands with two atomic bomb mushroom clouds emanating from Nagasaki and Hiroshima on the map. The words to accompany the art were "If you don't want to get nuked, don't start a fu^king war!"

Koreans hated the Japanese for all the atrocities the Japanese had put them through for centuries. Guess they made their own judgment...

could PAPA STALIN be a reason?

The very article you cite states categorically that Japan was NOT "already in the process of surrendering" when the bombs were dropped, simply that they were holding out for Russian negotiations that would end the war on terms that would still be favorable to them. Simple insanity, that a nation losing a war so utterly would think they could negotiate a favorable end to the war they were losing. But it was obviously clear that without those favorable conditions Japan would not surrender. It was not so much that Russia declared war on them, but that the Russians proved they would not mediate any favorable end to the war, that was the straw that broke the camel's back of delusion that the Japanese leadership still clung to. And even then, it is well documented that many in the Japanese leadership still wanted to continue the war, willing to die (and take many millions of Japanese with them) for their twisted beliefs.

And what the article fails to take note of is that the Russians declared war on Japan AFTER the Hiroshima bomb. Why? They could have declared war several months earlier; after all, the war with Germany had ended in May of 1945. In fact, the Russians had already agreed at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945 to enter the war against Japan after Germany had surrendered. Why did they wait? The article states that until Russia declared war days after the bomb, Japan STILL thought they were neutral and a possible asset to Japanese desires to end the war on their own terms. Why didn't the Russians tell the Japanese earlier that their (secret) negotiations were pointless?

The premise that atomic bombs alone did not end the war is interesting, but full of hindsight and not conclusive. No one in 1945 KNEW any such thing; all they knew is that they had to do whatever they could do to end the war as quickly as possible. Even the article states that the Japanese knew an Allied invasion of Japan would be an unparalleled bloodbath - hell, they were COUNTING on it. The article states also that the Japanese had very little concern for civilian Japanese casualties, and the Battle of Okinawa had already proved that. It is a fact that the firebombing of Tokyo killed more Japanese civilians than the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs. But some of you simply don't seem to grasp that World War II was the first war in history where strategic bombing occurred, and it had not yet been proved that the bombings would not convince militaristic minds of the futility of their war and get them to surrender. Rational minds thought that it would.

War is a tragedy by definition. But for people to sit back in their comfortable chairs 70 years later and judge the morality of the hard decisions those who sought to end a war had to make is, in pure terms, contemptible.

Pearl Harbor started a war. The Hiroshima Bomb was an attempt to end it. If you can't grasp the difference in morality between the two on that basis, you are hopeless.

Agreed.

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I agree with you soccertrainy101.

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Muricans aren't too bright lets be honest.They think Japan started WWII.They are unfamiliar with Asian history prior to December 7th 1941.