RE: The Hiroshima shadows.
June 3, 2017 at 2:48 am
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2017 at 2:53 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 3, 2017 at 2:39 am)Tizheruk Wrote:(June 3, 2017 at 2:24 am)Minimalist Wrote: It was a cultural failure. We did not understand them. They did not understand us. John Toland's "The Rising Sun" gives an amazing overview of the multiple fuckups that led to WWII in the Pacific.
Good book
I like how he gets the Japanese fear of western expansionism . Which is the reason Japan turned to Fascism and Militarism in the first place . As they ultimately feared suffering the same fate as China .
Japanese solution to the fear of western expansionism seems to be to inflict a far more brutal form of expansionism upon their fellow asians than have been typically meted out by the westerners. Therefore Japanese expansionism is to be excused. They were merely misunderstood.
As it happens, most western expansionism were also motivated in part by the fear of other western nation's expansionism. So perhaps they are just as excusable as Japanese expansionism, so the Japanese have nothing to complain about if they feel threatened by these western expansionism. They really just misunderstand those westerners whose expansion threatened them.
