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From: "KONDO Tatsuo" <kondo@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>; <DCHAPSK@...>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [L-OT] Atomic Bomb/Japan


> At 2:26 AM -0400 01.9.24, GAmoore@... wrote:
> >If they weren't willing to surrender even AFTER two atomic bomb attacks
> >an the firebombing of Tokyo, do you really think they would just
> >surrender on their own?
> >
> >If we had blockaded them, they would have perfected their own atomic
> >bomb, they would have perfected their jet, their long range
> >intercontential bomber, etc - all of which they were working on.
>
> Japan at that time had no such abilities of any kind.
> What "they" could do was to fly balloons reinforced with saccharide taken
> from a kind of potato and tell the citizens to fight with bamboo spears,
as
> you wrote.
>
> >Hirohito was reponsible for about 10,000,000 - 15,000,000 civilian deaths
> >in China, Phillipines, Malaysia, Burma, etc. and a few in Pearl Harbor
> >and probably some Korean comfort girls too.
>
> I also think Hirohito was responsible.  Maybe he didn't want to start the
> invasion and war himself, nor know about massacre of innocent people, but
> he at least approved of the invasion.  Hirohito himself thought that way.
> When he met general Douglas McArthur , Hirohito said, "I came here as a
> person who's totally responsible for all decisions and actions that have
> been done in this war by the Japanese nation.  I came here to put myself
> into your hands.  I don't care what will happen to me.  Please do not
> distress Japanese citizens any more."
>
> McArthur was deeply touched and did not accuse him.  I think it was a wise
> decision.  If Hirohito was executed, hatred against the US would cover all
> over Japan, and the US might lose one of the most important allies in the
> post WW2 world.
>

I'm sorry I can't recall the source but at one time I saw a documentary
which mentioned that one of the conditions of Japan's "unconditional"
surrender was that the monarchy would survive.

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