Hiroshima equal Peace?

Question

After visiting Hiroshima Museum, I have seen the Japanese have down played their role during WW2 but instead I sensed some hidden message that is : asking why the American used the Atomic Bomb on these 2 cities and are they using Japan as a guinea pig on their latest technology? Every year, they repeated the protest about war.

NOW, can somebody tells me what make America retaliates? If is because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour? What happen if after Pearl Harbour , would the Japanese continues to attack America IF AMERICA did retaliates?

should read as AMERICA did not retaliates?

About the Nanking massacre, yes, in the museum, the Japanese put in a figure of 10,000 to 20,000 ONLY and further add on however China's figure is 300,000???

Joriental,
I read vaguely and did not find that there
's any declaration by the Japanese, infact it was surprised attack as written right at the beginning of the web you have provided. It was further mentioned on next page that in 1991 the Japanese Foreign Minister said the Japanese intended to declare war with US, just 25mins b4 the supposed attack on Pearl Harbour...Pls enlighthen further if I missed any point?

Answer 1

It['s hard to tell if your question asks why America went to war, or what America dropped the atomic bomb.

The Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs were not 'tests' or 'experimenting', and the decision to use the bombs was not taken lightly. US government was more honourable back then. It also needs to be remembered that the A-bomb was new and little understood technology- it was not until years into the Cold War that it was fully realised that the A-bomb was a whole new moral level of war, rather than just another weapon.

The main reasons the bomb was used were the horrific casualties the Allies faced in invading Japan. Japan was obviously defeated from mid-1943, but they fought harder and harder- fanatically to the last soldier and, on Okinawa, many civilians as well. The Japanese army revered their Emperor as a god and would fight as long as he told them to, and he showed no inclination whatsoever to negotiate peace even though the war was utterly futile and destroying Japan.

I am greatly opposed to the use of excessive force in war and the needless killing of civilians, but the decision to use the A-bomb was absolutely right and the Japanese need to ask themselves why they were doing what they did- mass murder, rape, torture, chemical warfare experiments, militant expansionism. Compared to Germany, they have a very unhealthy view of their nation's cations between 1937 and 1945.

Answer 2

llordlloyd deserves best answer, particularly on his observation that while the Germans rightfully view WWII as a shameful blemish on their honor (which took them down the road for reconciliation), the Japanese still pretend like WWII never happened.

It's real easy for the Japanese to get all hoity-toity about being peaceful and pacifistic and not using the bomb, when an even precursory study of the deprivations that Japan visited upon China is horrifying enough to bring a grown man to tears. A number equal to the amount of people killed by both bombs was equal to the number of people were massacred at Nanking, and unlike the atom bomb, which killed most instantly, the citizens of Nanking faced brutal soldiers who gang-raped women, slaughtered children, and engaged in wanton and senseless race-based destruction.

The Imperial Japanese regime was monstrously evil, a clear threat to the world, and don't let Japanese revisionism tell you otherwise. Complete and unconditional surrender was the only solution to deal with those tyrants, and short of a multi-million casualty campaign to invade Japan, the use of the Atomic bomb was the only solution that would have lead to the proudly militaristic Japanese people surrendering to the Americans.

Answer 3

Japan isn't downplaying the war. Documentaries and historical programs come on TV and radio every year. It is for not to forget the war for them self. Please do not judge with seeing young Japanese. They are busy for enjoying today's life. But they will also notice about their past when they start to work in the society.

By the way, Japan declared to attack to Pearl Harbor ahead of time. And Japan also made an efforts toward the establishment of peace. Some TV shows, not only in Japan but also in the US, have ever reported this issue in modern days. If the documentary which was filmed in the US about this issue is correct, the records exist in both Japan and America as an official documents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#Breaking_off_negotiations


Further more, the US had already broken Japanese cryptography named PURPLE. They could listen to the Japanese communications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PURPLE
http://winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=951

Answer 4

Here's the thing:

The Japanese acted first by bombing Pearl Harbor. Four years later, we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This was not an easy decision for Harry Truman to make. It was either bomb these two cities OR do a mainland invasion of Japan which would kill a lot more people than dropping the bombs. I doubt that Truman wanted to deliberately take out innocent Japanese citizens that had no involvement in the war.

Answer 5

Well after what the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor attacking and killing innocent Americans without the decency of even declaring war, why shouldn't we have dropped the bombs. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Havn't you heard the statement "All is fair in love and war"?

Answer 6

America was quick to declare war after Pearl Harbor and they put the Japanese Americans in relocation centers and confiscated their property.

Answer 7

Peace, n. In worldwide affairs, a era of cheating between 2 wars ... -Ambrose Bierce- "What a attractive restoration we are in now, peace has been declared" ... -Napoleon Bonaparte- united statesa.'s conflicts in in basic terms the final a hundred yrs. = 2 worldwide wars, Korea, Viet Nam, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia, the gulf two times, Afghanistan ... did I omit any? We nonetheless salary wars on drugs and terrorism. the colourful side is they are turning out to be much less inexpensive.

Answer 8

it was use the bomb or get a lot of American troops killed taking the island. Also the Japs where working on a atomic bomb to use against our navy and that would have been a disaster for us

Answer 9

It was a decision made by alot of information, money time available soldiers, and so on. Good bad who cares we did not start it.