You are not informed.They continued the same tactics as to obtain better surrender terms, make the war so costly in casualties that we would negotiate with better terms. With Bushido, human life including Japanese lives did not seem valuable to the Japanese and that was their strategy, trade lives for negotiating purposes.At the time it came down to Japanese lives or American lives and I had to choose, I vote for Americans to live. Call me old fashioned or whatever, That which seems so hard for many to understand is that the Pacific war was different.
I would say all human life is valuable. I think chosing to kill non-comatant Japanese because you didn't want to face the political consequences of dead soldiers and you didn't want to negotiate for peace in good faith was morally reprehensible.
Cam anyone answer these questions:
Did Japan believe she could defeat America?
If Japan could not defeat America, why did she attack America?
If Japan could not defeat America what was their strategy?
Was it still their strategy at the end of the war?
As for Japan's shortage of ships she no longer needed ships we were bringing the Americans to them to be killed.
No, they didn't think they could defeat America. They did think that they could drag the war on long enough to where the Americans would agree to a favorable peace treaty.
Which is pretty close to what their strategy was in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
They had hoped America wold be to preoccuppied with Germany, or that they could play the USSR and US off against each other.
By 1945, the Japanese they knew that was impossible and were just looking for a peace treaty. Once the USSR entered the Pacific War, they knew the game was up.
The Japanese strategy was simple after Pearl Harbor: take a lot of land make Americans pay with lives taking the land back. When America could no longer tolerate the loss of lives, America would then negotiate, and in the negotiations Japan would end up with its needed resources. Of course Japan would lose soldiers too but with Bushido the losses seemed tolerable. But like many wars it didn't work out that way. American ended up tolerating its losses and Japan could not. If the Japanese care for life as Americans they would not have allowed Bushido and would have cared more for its wounded, and certainly not asked their soldiers to commit suicide rather than surrender.At the time it came down to Japanese lives or American lives and I had to choose, I vote for Americans to live. Call me old fashioned or whatever, That which seems so hard for many to understand is that the Pacific war was different.
I would say all human life is valuable. I think chosing to kill non-comatant Japanese because you didn't want to face the political consequences of dead soldiers and you didn't want to negotiate for peace in good faith was morally reprehensible.
Cam anyone answer these questions:
Did Japan believe she could defeat America?
If Japan could not defeat America, why did she attack America?
If Japan could not defeat America what was their strategy?
Was it still their strategy at the end of the war?
As for Japan's shortage of ships she no longer needed ships we were bringing the Americans to them to be killed.
No, they didn't think they could defeat America. They did think that they could drag the war on long enough to where the Americans would agree to a favorable peace treaty.
Which is pretty close to what their strategy was in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
They had hoped America wold be to preoccuppied with Germany, or that they could play the USSR and US off against each other.
By 1945, though, they knew that was impossible and were just looking for a peace treaty. Once the USSR entered the Pacific War, they knew the game was up.
No one disputes that the acts of the Japanese government and military were heinous.
What is disputed is the American government using total war tactics to purposely murder huge numbers of Japanese civilians, most of whom were enslaved by their government and military...
You just fabricated that to support your bogus conclusions. There is no evidence that the Japanese were anything but enthusiastic supporters of war.
Read accounts from POWs imprisoned on the mainland, which clearly prove the population was staving and demoralized.
I am well enough informed to know the Japanese may not have been happy with the outcome of their war but they certainly supported it and you still have provided nothing in support of your bogus claim that they "were enslaved by their government and military."
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