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Originally Posted by sandy Ｉ don,t think as you think.
Those days,Trade of japan was cut by mine and submarine.
and,factorys were also destoroyed by B-29.
but,witohout atomich bomb,Surrender of Japan became late a month.
Ｓｏｖｉｅｔ might invade Japan mainland and occupy all korea&North of HOKKAIDO.
US might fight against NJ as Korea war. |
I disagree with the assumption that Japan "was on the verge of surrendering anyways" etc, for one simple reason. The attempt was made to kidnap the Emperor and prevent him from surrending AFTER Nagasaki had the A-bomb dropped on it. The military leaders of Japan did not truly represent the wishes of its citizens and the were way way out of touch in all honesty. Nonetheless, the WERE in control and they were determined to keep fighting till no Japanese citizen was alive to fight. Quite simply, they were NUTS!! Their do or die mentality cost far too much Japanese blood anyways. The reality of the Atom Bomb denied them of their idealizedl "fighting to the very last." They were faced with the prospect of sitting idly by while every city in their nation was erased from existance one by one, and no real chance of stopping it and no real means of retaliation.
If Japan had been a democratic nation at that point, they war with the United States may not have ever happened. If it had occurred, the Japanese people would have demanded an end to it far sooner that what actually happened in WW2. It is not the Japanese people that were the problem It was the miltary hawks.