oooh youth do u know what AMERICA did in Heroshima and Najazaki cities in secoond world war?

Question

crying in beloved cities! it is same like 11/9 SO usaTHE FIRST country used anatomic bomb .

Answer 1

I'm a Japanese-American, born in Japan. I've been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki both. Incidentally, I'm an infantryman in the United States Army in the midst of another tour in Iraq. I'm familiar with the sort of devastation war causes firsthand, and I've had quite a bit of time to discuss the whole Second World War issue from the Japanese viewpoint with buddies who ask.

The answers presented so far mostly show ignorance, and still more ignorance. Japan initiated the Pearl Harbor strike because the United States imposed a unilateral ban on providing Japan with petroleum exports in response to Japanese hostilities in French Indochina. Japan needed to take Malaya and the Dutch East Indies in order to secure the resources to prosecute its war in China. The United States, which was decidedly NOT neutral (sending arms to Chinese Nationalists, sending fighter squadrons under the guise of "volunteers" to fight for Chiang Kai-Shek) but wanted to maintain that fiction to appease isolationists within America proper, crossed a line deliberately in imposing sanctions. Whether there was foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor strike in Downing Street and the White House is not within the scope of discussions here. The fact is that economic warfare and clandestine military aid was levied against Japan from the outset, regardless of whether it was justified or no. That in itself was an act of war far predating the December 7th, 1941 strike.

What the Japanese Imperial Army did in its conduct of war was unspeakable - in stark contrast to the Japanese Imperial Navy, which remained above such atrocities and harbored a great hate for the Imperial Army. However, cruelty in war is something the United States is no stranger to, from the use of flamethrowers, collecting Japanese skulls boiled in lye, firebombing civilian populations, and the final use of two atomics to induce surrender - when one perhaps would have done the job.

It was war, and it was brought to an end. The Japanese suffered greatly, and to this day the consensus in Japan is not bitterness towards America, but resignation. The war was shameful, it resulted in national defeat and an occupation that has lasted for 60 years and continues to this day. Whatever wrongs were inflicted by the Imperial Army, the constant spectacle of young women being raped by bad apples within the American military stationed in Japan year after year is certainly no price that should be paid by the Japanese.

For those of you who likely haven't traveled outside of your respective states, much less counties, and blather about "Yeah, the Japs deserved it" as if the war never ended, are blissfully unaware that Japan is one of the strongest allies the United States has, period. Japan fulfills the same sort of role Germany does in Europe, as a regional ally that sponsors enough troops and bases for the United States to successfully project power throughout the region. Without Japan buying T-Bills year after year, that massive annual budget deficit perpetuated by Congress on the American people would have sunk the nation long ago. Without the Japan-US security pact, the western half of the Pacific would have gone to the USSR. That selfsame security pact enables the United States to apply pressure, whether diplomatic or military, on the DPRK and PRC.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessities. Don't try to insult anyone's intelligence with the perverse arithmetic of "we killed thousands to save more thousands". It doesn't work, and never has. 9/11, on the other hand, was no necessity. There wasn't a thing that any of the innocents that died that day were doing to oppress Muslims. It was a stark act of terrorism that killed citizens of over 60 nations. It was unforgivable, then and now.

Questioner, when you use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to villify the United States, you do insult to the Japanese, and you do insult to every American and every innocent that died on 9/11. The atomic bombs were cruel, senseless necessities within a cruel, senseless war. At least Americans have it within themselves to look back on history and feel the need to redress historical wrongs (even though many, like those who answered this question, fall short of even basic moral standards, let alone knowledge of history) while those knife-wielding suicide-vest wearing thugs in the Middle East do no such thing.

You can take your question and shove it. Rarely do I read such complete idiocy out of any question, and the stench of your stupidity calls idiots to answer you like buzzards on roadkill. Before you go around trying to villify someone using someone else's wounds, take a look at your own repressed, screwed-up society and fix it.

Answer 2

Yawn....

I would be surprised if anyone did not know this bit of history, so before you start to try and educate people it may be a good thing to brush up on your writing skills.

Also Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two bombs which ended a world war where millions were dying, whereas 9/11 was an unprovoked attack on a civilian target in a country which was not at war.

Answer 3

NO, it is not the same - we were not in the middle of a war that Japan would not come to the peace tables.
There is no secret about these bombs, they ended one of the bloodiest wars in history, Read your history books, we have nothing to hide or be ashamed of. They saved more lives than they took - peace came shortly after.
9/11 was an unprovoked attack on people not at war.

Answer 4

You can't spell Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You don't know the difference between 11/9 and 9/11.
You don't know what an atomic bomb is.
You have no grammar/spelling skills.

You should be ashamed of yourself instead of looking down your nose at "youth."

Answer 5

You should have seen what we did to Tokyo with incendiary bombs. Or what the Brits did to Dresden. Or what Japan did to Nanking, etc, etc.

WW2 was brutal. Millions upon millions of civilians died under fire.

There were very good and logical reasons for using the atomic bombs on Japan. In the end, their use ended the war quickly and thus saved in excess of 5 million lives.

Answer 6

Its HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI. Yes, America used the atomic bomb, and if you weren't so lazy and picked up a history book you might know why - it save thousands of American lives. BTW: do you know what the Japanese did during WWII? Read a freakin' history book!!! I especially suggest you look up the "Bataan Death March". The Japanese were vicious and cruel. Ask about what they did to the Chinese, too - like germ warfare, gas warfare, and unspeakable tortures. The Japanese also sneak attacked Pearl Harbor too, remember???

Answer 7

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yes we did it. To prevent millions more deaths in a all out invasion of the Japan islands. But after it was over we helped to build Japan up. Billions and Billions went to Japan afterwards...

We are the first and hopefully the last...But I suspect Amamaddog in Iran will be the next...

Answer 8

An "anatomic" bomb? Marilyn Monroe!

Answer 9

I've been to Nagasaki. I've stood on ground zero. I've seen the destruction that the atomic bomb wrought there. I still believe that the atomic bomb saved millions of lives, as the Japanese would have fought us to the last man.

Answer 10

You don't attack the U.S. and expect them to not do anything. There was no provocation for the attack on Pearl Harbor or for the attack on the World Trade Centers. Both were acts of terrorism. At least the US let So-Damn-Insane know that they were coming for him.

"A message to terrorists every where...If you counted on America to be passive...You counted wrong."
Ronald Reagen,
Us President.