The Nuking of Japan

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I think it's also appropriate to point out that Japan, up to mid-1800's was almost completely isolated. If the Allies had contained Japan, nothing would have changed within Japan, they just wouldn't have been able to go about their imperial conquest. Isolated for a long period of time, who knows what Japan would have become, it probably would not have become more accepting (as others have pointed out, they aren't very accepting of outsiders even now). Japan could have even taken the train to crazy town, albeit they would have had to figure out a way to get there without oil, but the Japanese are very adaptive and intelligent. In 1854, they were a completely closed feudal, agricultural based society. The fact that within a century they were able to catch up and in some respects surpass the West in terms of technology and industrialization shows how adaptive and industrious they are as a people. I don't think shutting them off from the world would have solved the problem, just delayed it.