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Americans who read about Japan’s surrender in August 1945 learn only part of what happened because historical accounts are incomplete. They recite the official narrative of the United States government that invading Japan would have caused a million American casualties. Luckily, the United States had developed the atomic bomb. After dropping two atomic bombs Japan quickly surrendered. This official history fails to mention that Japan was seeking to negotiate a surrender since late 1944 after it was clear the war was lost, but powerful people wanted the war to continue longer to demonstrate the power of atomic bombs.
The two atomic bomb attacks produced the same destruction as previous raids involving hundreds of B-29 bombers so they had little impact on the war or Japanese leaders, who were really terrified that Soviet forces had landed in northern Japan. Delaying the end of the war to demonstrate two atomic bombs was immoral and counterproductive. For unknown reasons, the Americans launched a massive bombing raid five days after the second atomic bomb was dropped.
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“Japs Asked Peace in January”; Walter Trohan; Chicago Tribune; August 19, 1945; http://wyso.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/9/…
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“Was There a Diplomatic Alternative? The Atomic Bombing and Japan’s Surrender”; Jeremy Kuzmarov; The Asia-Pacific Journal; October 15, 2021; https://apjjf.org/2021/20/Kuzmarov-Pe…
“The B-29 Raid That Ended World War II”; J.A. Hitchcock; http://www.jahitchcock.com/mission/b2…
“Bombing of Kumagaya in World War II”; (five days after Nagasaki was bombed); Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing…
“American Had Plans to Help Russia Invade Japan During World War II”; Sebastien Roblin; The National Interest; December 31, 2020; https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reb…
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A year or two ago, GlobalTimes, for its supposed anti-Americanism, ran columns that lambasted an Avengers film for having a scene where the protagonist laments the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The columnists’ notion was that the bombings were done in response to e.g. the Rape of Nanjing and that by condemning the bombings (as Putin and the Iranian govt. did, as well as even Mao Zedong!) the film’s Chinese-American director (who IIRC was already “persona non grata”) was pandering to “political correctness”. Back when they still had Disqus comments I tried to talk some sense into GlobalTimes (or at… Read more »
This.
Even in China there’s a number of people who conveniently buy into the USAian narrative either out of ignorance or out of hatred/spite, much as I understand what Imperial Japan did in WWII and before.
What becomes of China’s relationship with Russia if the Soviet Red Army’s role in defeating Japan is ignored?