Japan spends millions on yet more lies about hiro and the War
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/japanese-emperor-cautioned-against-wwii-official-history/
Gee, imagine that, the Japanese ruling class claim that hirohito was a nice guy. What a big fucking surprise. There is a debate going on amongst military history buffs as to whether or not it was the atom bomb, or the Soviet declaration of war that caused the Japanese to surrender. I happen to believe it was both*; but my argument for the atomic bomb factoring in isn't based on the usual assumptions as to its destructive power in a general way. Rather, I believe that it finally convinced ol' hiro that HE wouldn't survive. For the last year or two, a huge underground bunker had been built (with the usual use of slave labor) to keep his nibs happy and fat against traditional air attack, (there is very little about this place written up in Western histories of the War, a serious lapse). When the reports came in about the first two blasts, and the poisonous radiation, and the shock wave and oxygen deprivation, etc. etc., our boy shit his pants realizing that, for the first time, there was a very real chance that he'd have to suffer the same fate he'd condemned all too many others to. The bunker probably wouldn't be adequate. And he caved, right quick.
I have no interest in getting the English language release of this "official" history. I have enough toilet paper already, thank you.
*I believe it was the Soviet's and their successful invasion of Manchuria that let most of the civilian government and ruling class to conclude that they had no chance or choice. But not hiro.
Gee, imagine that, the Japanese ruling class claim that hirohito was a nice guy. What a big fucking surprise. There is a debate going on amongst military history buffs as to whether or not it was the atom bomb, or the Soviet declaration of war that caused the Japanese to surrender. I happen to believe it was both*; but my argument for the atomic bomb factoring in isn't based on the usual assumptions as to its destructive power in a general way. Rather, I believe that it finally convinced ol' hiro that HE wouldn't survive. For the last year or two, a huge underground bunker had been built (with the usual use of slave labor) to keep his nibs happy and fat against traditional air attack, (there is very little about this place written up in Western histories of the War, a serious lapse). When the reports came in about the first two blasts, and the poisonous radiation, and the shock wave and oxygen deprivation, etc. etc., our boy shit his pants realizing that, for the first time, there was a very real chance that he'd have to suffer the same fate he'd condemned all too many others to. The bunker probably wouldn't be adequate. And he caved, right quick.
I have no interest in getting the English language release of this "official" history. I have enough toilet paper already, thank you.
*I believe it was the Soviet's and their successful invasion of Manchuria that let most of the civilian government and ruling class to conclude that they had no chance or choice. But not hiro.
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