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Now imagine how the japanese are seen by the people of China, Korea, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sumatra, Singapore, Indonesia and Papua who were still living under japanese occupation and terror in August 1945. Who died in droves far greater than the Hiroshima or Nagasaki victims, with up to 25 million casualities. Whose death rates increased towards the end of the war, and for whom a delay of the capitulation of the japanese by a few weeks or, god forbid, months would have meant millions of deaths.
Who, mind you, did not support the japanese government, did not support the japanese war, had no way of stopping it except for fighting for their lives, yet still had to suffer from it. Unlike the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who could have prevented the japanese government from taking power, who could have striked and fought against their militaristic government, who could have sabotaged the war efforts of their government in a war that was lost anyways - yet they never did.
Like, there are still people alive today who wouldn't have been without the atomic bombs. And I'm not even talking about american soldiers here, I'm talking about civilians. Not dropping those bombs would have meant their death. Go on, tell them they should've died because the japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were innocently living their life and it totally wasn't their government, their labor and their devotion to the emperor that kept the war going.
After all, the real victims of the japanese imperial war were the japanese. Totally! You know, those who until today have not accepted their crimes and instead openly deny it.
At the same time you can turn that around and say that there are thousands of regular people (that didn't have any power over what their country was doing and didn't participate in it) who would be alive today and that aren't because of two bombs... So it's not that strong of an argument when you think about it...
Oh and you know what Japan could have done to prvent the bombs? Fucking surrender.
Yes, because the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the ones deciding what the emperor was doing.
Yes, they actually were. By not doing any of the things I wrote.
They were ready to surrender, the US were fucking them around
Oh right, they were ready to surrender. You know what would've been nice? Fucking surrendering.
You know what would've been nice after the first nuclear bomb? Fucking surrendering.
You know what would've been nice after the second nuclear bomb? Fucking surrendering.
Instead, they tried a coup until the emperor finally grew some tiny balls.
Man people like you should have lived in the japanese occupied territories.
Because the fucking Imperial government was trash. You think I'm defending Japan? Fuck no. But it's a historical fact that the ONLY thing stopping them from surrendering at that point was their worry that surrendering would mean the US forcing them to remove the emperor. What they didn't know, and what the US refused to tell them, was that they didn't give two shits about the emperor. In fact, their demand for Japan's surrender included a statement that the Emperor would retain his place. That little note was only removed when the nuclear tests came back to the President, letting him know that the bombs would work.