(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.
It is horrible that even today, humans, as compassionate as we can be, the dark side is that we can also dream up horrible ways to kill each other.
My X wife is Japanese, her grandfather was in the Japanese military.
