I don't even have to read this to tell you. Japan was pretty much like Hitler and thought they were supreme. They then tried to brutally (and I mean brutally) conquer all of Asian and the Pacific nations.
America came along and held them off,
They got pissed off,
Pearl Harbor,
U.S. Navy nearly gone,
We rebuild Navy,
Keep fighting,
We develop Atomic bomb (thanks to Einstein warning us, but that is a different story),
Fat man goes *whistling* *big boom*
Hiroshima & Nagasaki gone
Japan falls to their knees
Retracts from all nations
Says they are done with war (WWII)
Well, they didn't say they were done with war. The US said they were done with war. That's why the US has military bases in Japan, and Germany for that matter. It was all part of the surrender agreements so the US could keep an eye on them to make sure they don't do it again (among other things).
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While this is very interesting information, this isn't "fun" in the least. This goes under "talk"
I live in Indonesia and I learn what japan did to our country back then. It's so horrible. They make us into their slave, rape the women, kill the children and women and men, they're bassically kill all the people in Indonesia. It's so sad and cruel. And thanks god I don't have to experience those horrible things.. And one thing.. The children and women must hide if there's any japanesse soldier or they will kill or rape you and sometimes even both.
Sorry for the long comment
My grandfather turned 18 in 1945 and in order to avoid the draft he enlisted in the navy. He was in training to be tail gunner on a divebomber flying off an aircraft carrier, but the US nuked the japanese and they surrendered before he saw battle. He probably would have been killed
my dad is japanese. he gave me the point of the japanese, yes, the japanese were killing and raping women, they did cruel shit but that wasnt the minority plus japan is veryyyy cultury different, ither theyre super sweet and polite n has the best manners or theyre really headstrong and traditional like the old ways. plus it was the fucked up gov. and they had different clans of the royal family . so if they had different point, the other part of the clan just went along with it . no stopping them . but america bombed most of hiroshima with the nuclear bomb bc of all that . but the nuclear bomb killed manyyyyy people . both countries did eachother dirty . its war .
Not really sure what a lot of your comment has to do with.....anything on this post. Is it really better if its a small minority of the people that are making the decisions to commit heinous acts while the vast majority of the population just accepts it and does nothing, or even worse helps? Knowing that it is completely disgusting and going along with it just because you are "following orders" is, in my opinion, much worse than if everybody actually believed it was right.
As to America bombing Hiroshima, thats really nothing to do with this post, but the American leaders KNEW the bomb was going to decimate the cities and wipe out thousands of innocent lives, they also knew that an attack that large would completely stop the Japanese for fear of more nuclear attacks and that once Japan surrendered, Germany wouldn't be far behind. They weighed how many lives it would cost, and how many lives it could cost if they didn't do it and allowed the war to continue for who knows how long.
It wasn't a "dirty act" it was a logically weighed decision to stop 2 countries from the mass genocide they were doing with the least amount of casualties. Doesn't mean the casualties weren't extremely high, but its what they decided to be 'for the greater good'
"To decimate" can be traced back to ancient times. When an invading army would decimate a town, they would line up their people and count each one only in cycles of ten. For each person that was counted as a "ten" they would kill them off (thus the root "dec-" for "ten" is in there).
I don't know why the duck they'd do that but I remember my English teacher explaining it to me. The word "decimate" can now be used in terms of mass destruction.
Wow I didn't even know any of that. Thank you for giving me more insight into this forgotten part of history. (I know that sounds sarcastic but seriously)
Look up the "rape of Nanking" by the Japanese. It's horrific; far worse than anything the nazis did (that may be a bold statement, but it's true)
Some rural Japanese would even run themselves off the edge of cliffs with their children to avoid capture, which was the ultimate shame. The emperor taught them all human life next to his was worthless, including their own. It's sad.
The part that really creeps me out are the studies the Imperial Japanese did on POWs. Unit 731 was an army base where they vivisected prisoners, replaced their organs, and sewed them back up to see how the body would react. They also experimented with plague, cholera, and all sorts of nasty shit.
An excellent book that really illustrates the horrors of war, through following a story of survival in WWII in Japan, is unbroken. Easily one of my favorites, if not my number one book.
Humans have treated their human brothers inhumanely since the dawn of time. Dividing people up by ethnicity/nationality/religion/etc only makes it easier to commit atrocities against each other, since people can more easily be dehumanized if they're outside of the group.
It's one of the reasons I don't think we've evolved appreciatively in millennia.
America came along and held them off,
They got pissed off,
Pearl Harbor,
U.S. Navy nearly gone,
We rebuild Navy,
Keep fighting,
We develop Atomic bomb (thanks to Einstein warning us, but that is a different story),
Fat man goes *whistling* *big boom*
Hiroshima & Nagasaki gone
Japan falls to their knees
Retracts from all nations
Says they are done with war (WWII)
Sorry for the long comment
As to America bombing Hiroshima, thats really nothing to do with this post, but the American leaders KNEW the bomb was going to decimate the cities and wipe out thousands of innocent lives, they also knew that an attack that large would completely stop the Japanese for fear of more nuclear attacks and that once Japan surrendered, Germany wouldn't be far behind. They weighed how many lives it would cost, and how many lives it could cost if they didn't do it and allowed the war to continue for who knows how long.
I don't know why the duck they'd do that but I remember my English teacher explaining it to me. The word "decimate" can now be used in terms of mass destruction.
Some rural Japanese would even run themselves off the edge of cliffs with their children to avoid capture, which was the ultimate shame. The emperor taught them all human life next to his was worthless, including their own. It's sad.
...and here I am wasting my time on the interwebs.
It's one of the reasons I don't think we've evolved appreciatively in millennia.