Re:Transcript of Conversations among German Nuclear Physicis...
by krapp on Saturday September 24, 2016 @10:42AM
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I don't understand why the US doesn't give Japan a pass for Pearl Harbor. At least that was an unambiguous military target.
I found a Quora thread[0] with several answers from apparent Japanese natives that appears to address this.
Some Japanese don't give the US a pass, and Japan's pacificm and anti-nuclear stance can be seen in light of that (see the answer by "Hide Izumi",) as Japan's express policy of not wanting to repeat the evil done to them by the Americans.
Others accept the common rationale that the bombs would have saved more lives in the end than an invasion, and that the Japanese government at the time had betrayed its own people, committed atrocities and had to be stopped.
Others, still, don't really care because it was 70 years ago.
It probably helps a great deal that the US invested money and effort into rebuilding Japan after the war. We didn't want them to turn out like Germany after WW1 and wind up fighting them again in a few years.
I found a Quora thread[0] with several answers from apparent Japanese natives that appears to address this.
Some Japanese don't give the US a pass, and Japan's pacificm and anti-nuclear stance can be seen in light of that (see the answer by "Hide Izumi",) as Japan's express policy of not wanting to repeat the evil done to them by the Americans.
Others accept the common rationale that the bombs would have saved more lives in the end than an invasion, and that the Japanese government at the time had betrayed its own people, committed atrocities and had to be stopped.
Others, still, don't really care because it was 70 years ago.
It probably helps a great deal that the US invested money and effort into rebuilding Japan after the war. We didn't want them to turn out like Germany after WW1 and wind up fighting them again in a few years.
[0]https://www.quora.com/How-could-Japan-forgive-the-atom-bombs...