I keep hearing Islamic Terrorists say that Japan was trying to surrender before the US dropped the atomic bombs on them to end WW2.
Is this true? or is it terrorist propaganda?
2006-09-19 15:00:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It's true. Japan was already making overtures, seeking terms of surrender. All they wanted was to keep their emperor... something we granted anyway, when we got their surrender.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked because Truman wanted to send a message to Stalin.
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2006-09-19 15:02:46 · answer #1 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would not believe too much of what an Islamic terrorist says.
In the final months of the war there was a division growing between Hirohito's inner circle and the military. The debate raged on as to whether or not the military could continue to wage war, or even defend the home islands. Some in the Japanese government who realized that the war was unwinnable did begin sending out peace feelers and this activity was in progress when the bombs were dropped. It took the atomic bomb blasts to eliminate all doubt in the minds of the Japanese.The debate over this has been written about before and there is no real definitive answer. If the Islamic terrorists think they have found some earthshaking piece of news, they have not. The implied meaning is that the Islamic terrorists want to create the impression that a Japan begging to surrender was mercilessly bombed by the US even as they waved the white flag, and this is not the case at all.
There may have been some truth to the assertion that the bombs were dropped to reign in the Soviets' war ambitions. There is also some thinking that the horror of the devestation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki prevented the Cold War from erupting into a fuill-blown shooting war, the US and USSR having no wish to see that kind of destruction again.
2006-09-19 15:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There were some close to the Japanese Emperor that felt the war was lost and Japan needed to surrender. But many in the military felt that Japan could still win the war, and the Emperor chose not to surrender. Even after both atomic bombs had been dropped, this was not enough to convince all those in power in Japan to surrender. To some, the final decision was made when Russia declared war on Japan, a day after Hiroshima was bombed. After what they saw the Soviets do in Europe, Japan felt the only option was to surrender to the Americans.
And even with all this, some of the Japanese military tried to forcibly keep the Emperor from surrendering.
Do some history research for yourself. Do you really want to get your information from Islamic Terrorists?
2006-09-19 15:17:53 · answer #3 · answered by dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO, Japan was not trying to surrender before we drop 2 a bombs on them, they were preparing to fight to last person, old men , women and children would have fought us to the death.
those 2 a bombs, save way more lives than they took.
people are saying if we would have invaded mainland japan & not have dropped the bombs, well over a million lives would have been lost. the a bombs killed a few hundred thousand. Then they surrended...
2006-09-19 15:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people keep on going round and round on the question of atomics and the capitulation of Imperial Japan?
(1) Give references for claims made by "Islamic Terrorists". Attribution works wonders.
(2) No uber-orthodox Sunni militant (or Shia, for that matter) in his right mind would claim any Arab state or paramilitary would surrender, or make any claim to American mercy. Such is unthinkable, and what happened in 1945 in Tokyo Bay on board the USS Missouri has absolutely NO relevance to what happened in 9/11 and afterwards.
(3) Imperial Japan would NEVER have submitted to unconditional surrender on its own. The overtures claimed by revisionist historians completely ignore the personalities in charge of the War Cabinet in Tokyo, and do not provide attribution in the slightest. Hearsay is not proof. Anecdotes are not proof. Conjecture is not proof. Read the transcripts of the Tokyo Trials. Any defendants claim that Japan was about to surrender unconditionally and there was no need to use atomics? Any transcript records? NONE. I thought so.
The Muslim world wants to have it both ways: Play the downtrodden victim crushed by military oppression from the West, while at the same time laying claim to a mantle of macho militarism defined by indirect rocket fire, suicide bombers and VBIEDs. It behooves the casual observer to be skeptical of claims made by those not interested in objective representation of reality.
2006-09-22 09:55:16 · answer #5 · answered by Nat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heard that too. the generals of the time wanted to have japan surrender but truman wanted to show the soviets that we had the bomb and were going to use it.
2006-09-20 05:03:21 · answer #6 · answered by scififed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were teaching their people to fight to the death. The Japanese code of honor did not allow the people to give up. Only when the Empire told them to surrender did they do so.
2006-09-19 15:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by Edward F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Japan was preparing its population to fight to the death.
Terrorists will say anything to cloud the issue that they are terrorists.
2006-09-19 15:15:14 · answer #8 · answered by bpflyguy1990 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always learned that they were unwilling to surrender prior to being nuked. A Japanese vantage point would be interesting though.
2006-09-19 15:12:13 · answer #9 · answered by Cleareyes 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Mr. Truman was prepared to annihilate the Japanese race if the japanese did not surrender.
2006-09-19 19:56:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋