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It's a non-argument, the allies were attacking, simply stop attacking and loses would become almost zero overnight. By 1945 the Japanese had no offensive capability at all they could have been starved into surrender in months with minimal casualties.
You are saying that it was OK to use Nuclear Weapons on Japanese civilians because their country had a 'culture' of non-surrender ... that using nuclear weapons on civilians would save troops lives by avoiding a ground war, a ground war that was totally unnecessary.
If it was so correct against Japan then why not in Vietnam? ... a country that has never surrendered? or Afghanistan a country that has refused to surrender to British and Russian forces in the past, or Iran, Iraq, Libya ... all countries controlled by fundamentalists just as likely not to surrender as the Japanese?
Why not? Well it's because everyone and his dog knows you don't use weapons of mass destruction against civilian targets ... it's wrong today and despite US objections it was just as wrong in 1945
I was talking about their government. Ya know... Prime Minister... textbooks... their official acts. Not just a section of public.
Ok lol
The Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration on July 26th, 1945, calling for unconditioned surrender. The Japanese rejected it." General Dwight Eisenhower voiced his opposition at Potsdam. "The Japanese were already defeated," he told Secretary of War Henry Stimson, "and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." Admiral William Leahy, President Harry Truman's chief of staff, said that the "Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender….The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan." General Douglas MacArthur said that the Japanese would have gladly surrendered as early as May if the U.S. had told them they could keep the emperor. Similar views were voiced by Admirals Chester Nimitz, Ernest King and William Halsey, and General Henry Arnold."
The Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration on July 26th, 1945, calling for unconditioned surrender. The Japanese rejected it.
The bombings were a statement to the Russians more than anything. The anglo-americans had already started to worry about the power of Russian bear before the end of the war. Dropping the bombs was the yanks saying 'we have them and we will us them'. A serious war crimeI supplied the link to the WHOLE article. Please if u have time read it.
The bombing were war crimes. Japan was crushed.
Now Japanese is playing victims of war just because they got nuked, so Japanese are innocent victims of war and they demand apology? haha what a joke.
They are the ones who started war, invaded of whole Eastern, South Eastern Asia, murdering and raping like breathing and after a half century, they are claiming innocent victims.
Just another example of how Japanese relentlessly justified and distorted their war crimes.
The difference between two Axis counties, Germany and Japan is simple. Germany got rid of whole Nazi party and had them either executed or jailed for rest of their lives, never had chance to rise to political power in Germany again, in the meantime Japan had the most of war criminals just got away with it, then grabbed the political power in Japan once again, they just changed name of the party and played innocent victims, justifying and denying the wholed thing over and over, and it just worked, as you can see they got to play victims and some people in Thai actually believe they were real the victims.
So you're actually admitting to them violating the treaty LOL. The victims and neighboring countries gives a fuck. Japan has always made use of their arms whenever they built it up.A 1951 treaty and the nerve of having a Navy? Seriously who gives a feck, didn't the US just tear up a 1987 nuclear arms treaty? the German tear up it's troops on foreign soil agreement? Don't let your irrational racism overcome you, the Japanese of 2018 are about as similar to the Japanese of 1940 as a Ferrari is to a Humber Hawk.
You guys posted the evidences yourselves.No you were just talking shit "Asians hate Japanese" it's just not true ... but since when did truth matter when you can just make massive generalist statements with zero evidence to back it up ...
Germans are apologetic to their history. Japanese are still denying and reversing their war crimes ... back that up with evidence not just rhetoric
Japanese being hated all over Asia to this day is not just the war crimes during the war ... again where's your evidence?
Post what you want, opinions are like arseholes after all, but when you get called for BS don't cry like a baby.
The bombings were a statement to the Russians more than anything. The anglo-americans had already started to worry about the power of Russian bear before the end of the war. Dropping the bombs was the yanks saying 'we have them and we will us them'. A serious war crime
All of that is speculation. Why? Because Japan was not willing to surrender. They rejected the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 which explicitly states:I supplied the link to the WHOLE article. Please if u have time read it.
The bombing were war crimes. Japan was crushed.
Do you see what a hypocrite you are? You keep using this shit to defend japan against their crimes. Yet you lots still bring up the atomic bomb LMAO.Trying to identify 2019 Japan with 1945 Japan? are you serious?
That Son’s a bit good, eh?!
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As far as I know Japan has never asked for an apology, but I stand to be corrected.
Your knowledge of history seems a little bit shallow ... both German and Japanese leaders were prosecuted by the allies IMT in Europe and IMTFE in the Far East, it was the same prosecuting authorities who made decisions it wasn't "Germany got rid of whole Nazi party" or "Japan had the most of war criminals just got away with it" the allies, and fundamentally the US made all the prosecuting decisions not the losing countries. If the US let a load of Japanese off that was their call.
There are a list of German companies that were part of the Nazi war machine, VW, Hugo Boss, Bayer they are still around today as are many Japanese companies, so what?
Trying to identify 2019 Japan with 1945 Japan? are you serious?