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Japanese cultu(rul)e (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who told you Japan was planning to continue the war after Hiroshima?

They were planning to concede after the first bomb. The president didn't even learn of Nagasaki until it was in the news.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There's a lot more to it than that. Just for starters, there was a short lived coup in the military to try to keep it going. Tons going on in those last few days of the war on the Japanese side, and even if you had perfect knowledge of everything, it wasn't obvious that they would surrender.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could never claim to summarise even five minutes of WWII with a couple of sentences, but my point is that it's hardly fair to characterise Japan as "ain't heard no bell"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean maybe not all of Japan but like.... But there are definitely some Japanese soldiers who were insistent that they really didn't want to hear any idea of surrender

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Literal outlier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A fantastic outlier