Comments by "August Hayek" (@hayek218) on "PragerU"
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On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
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@hansheisenberg8737 Since you are half Japanese, I tell you an aspect of Japanese history that you have never heard about.
Believe it or not, the world’s oldest polished stoneware, earthenware, and lacquerware are fond in Japan. The polished stoneware goes back to 38,000 years ago, some 10,000 years older than the rest of the world. Since then, human has been living on this archipelago without discontinuation, and there are more than 10,000 archeological sites of 10,000 years ago in Japan. Then Japan, the world’s oldest country, started 2,600 years ago.
However, for over 38,000 years, there is no massacre in Japan. There are no bones of humans who were killed in wars before 2,000 years ago, and the wall the arrowheads are small for hunting small animals. In fact, the Jomon period, which lasted for 14,000 years is recently reviewed in the world as the most sustainable and peaceful society.
Wars started since people started accumulating wealth with rice. However, all the wars are between warriors or samurai in the later period. There are NO bones of the civilian massacre, records, legends, stories, no nothing, despite the fact that Japan always had one of the highest literacy rates in the world. In fact, the biggest death toll in a war in Japan is about 5,000 in the battle of Sekigahara. But all were samurai. There are many records of farmers selling foods to samurai or watching the battle from the top of the mountains. After all, samurai, whichever the side winds, need farmers for cropping rice.
Not only that, but Japan also did not have religious wars and killings among religions or sects like Europe did.
So, for tens of thousands of years, half of you have NO record of the civilian massacre. It did not even occur to you.
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@hansheisenberg8737 Another part of your history that you have never heard about.
Japan was allied with Germany but it also passed a cabinet resolution on December 6, 1938, not to assist any killing of Jews, and to treat all Jews equally to others in all aspects. In fact, two Japanese officers in Manchuria, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, and Colonel Norihiro Yasue, are now in the Golden Book in Jerusalem for saving tens of thousand lives of Jewish refugees under a command of Tojo. They also had a plan called Fugu Plan to save up to a million European Jew refugees.
The refugees who escaped from Europe into Manchuria via Trans-Siberian Rail were then moved to the Japanese Shanghai Settlement where they were able to live under the protection of the Japanese government because that was the only place in the whole world at the time where the Jews could enter without a visa. Of course, the whole process was condemned by Hitler.
Rabi M. Tokayer, the author of the book “Fugu Plan," says in his book that to be in the Golden Book, you have to know at least one Jewish person. If Tojo knew one, he would also have been in the Golden Book.
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Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945, incinerated more than 100,000 civilians in one day.
344 B-29s first dropped incendiary bombs on the circumference of a 40 km2 area so that the 100,000 people get trapped inside and could not escape. Then they dropped oil bombs, yellow-phosphorus incendiary bombs, and Elektron incendiary bombs (totaling about 400,000 bombs) as if painting out the entire area. They also conducted a low-level strafing run at the people who were running around.
Times Magazine (June 26, 2009) revealed that the Allied also considered a chemical attack on Tokyo using mustard gas.
Curtis LeMay, then the major general, who planned the Great Tokyo Air Raid said after the War that if they lost the war, he would have been a war criminal.
Robert McNamara, then lieutenant colonel, who was also involved in the planning of the air raid confessed in the movie “The Fog of War” that “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.”
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Etienne Bruere
Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
An acclaimed book "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. Waltzer also accuses the US Government for not even trying to negotiate with the Japanese to surrender before the dropping of the bombs. He says it was a double crime in the sense that the US did not try to avoid, and the bombs were dropped on civilians cities. This book is used as a text book at West Point today.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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