The Hiroshima shadows.

[Amarok]

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.

Sigh I never said it was reasonable nor right I was stating the reason why they expanded you seriously need to stop putting words in my mouth


As for your Japanese war of aggression argument and that's why America cut off japans supplies just no it was a two way incident so no it's more like not feeding an alligator for a fight with another alligator

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The theory that the US might not have bombed Berlin is idiotic.  The US didn't finish building the first bomb until 2 months after Berlin was taken.   Considering the US bombed Dresden into smithereens and killed at least as many people there as in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, and clearly to intimidate the Russians, it seems rather unconvincing to say the US would not have nuked Berlin had the bomb been available, if it is judged doing so would do more to intimidate the Russians than to antogonize other Europeans

1. They didn't finish the bomb but they were planning targets ahead of time one of them was Berlin but it was scrapped as a target

2. They had considered it and rejected it as I said .. And from a tactical perspective you could say it's stupid . And yes more were killed in Dreseden once again tactically it would be dumb. but that's what happened apparently they were less Squamish about using conventional bombs .

3. I agree it tactically would have effective but the military thought it was to horrific (as I said they were not so antsy about conventional bombs)