2006-06-28 06:31:41 · 5 answers · asked by jbowz23 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Honor is part of it but the refused to surrender to the Chinese or Russians, they hated the Chinese.
2006-06-29 15:52:33 · answer #1 · answered by Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They weren't. Had we not had nukes, we would have had to invade. We did not have the resources to do so. American estimates were that a million Americans would have died just during the initial invasion.
The Japanese almost made the decision to keep fighting. It came close to a military coup by the military leadership, who felt that, despite the nukes, they could make the Japanese islands so expensive to take in human life, that the Americans would have at least sued for a conditional surrender that would have allowed them to keep part of their expanded empire.
They were also seeing technology arrive from Germany, that would have been brought to bear had they not surrendered.
2006-07-04 20:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by freebird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
distinct it had to do with "saving face," type of lack of existence earlier dishonor, and said as for combating to the perfect guy, which coated no longer in straight forward words squaddies, yet to boot the civilian inhabitants, guy, lady and baby, this is the very aspect that could have made all of it the extra severe priced, in words of casualties, had an invasion of the domicile island been undertaken, and the jap defense force leaders new it. on the hand, notwithstanding, there have been different leaders in Japan who recommended renounce even as there became nevertheless something of the country to salvage, yet were overridden by the argument that, with such defences as those stated above, any attempt to take the country by pressure would change into so bloody that the alies would quickly supply up and furnish proper words. It took dropping 2 atomic bombs to convence the hawks that their usa will be devistated with out an invasion and convince them to accede to the decision for renounce.
2016-11-29 22:00:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because for one they thought that the Emperor was a God and also
they swore to fight until the death. Also knowing an invasion was immenent, they had gathered enough troops to stop a D-Day type of invasion. And we knew it we would lose hundreds of thousands of lives trying invade Japan.
2006-06-28 08:37:05 · answer #4 · answered by kd_apache 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called HONOR. Something that Americans lack and could never understand.
2006-06-28 06:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋