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@mattalley4330
British historian Colonel Russell Grenfell wrote,
"The attack on Pearl Harbor was not only predicted, it was expected. There is no doubt that President F. Roosevelt wanted to lead America to war. For some reason, the first blow had to come from the other side, which is why they tightened their grip on Japan.The president of the United States forced Japan to attack the United States.”
In fact, On August 12, 1941, Roosevelt held a secret meeting on the Navy heavy cruiser Augusta with Churchill, who visited on the cruiser Prince of Wales, off Newfound Round Island in Canada.
Already at that time, Roosevelt and Churchill had decided that they forced Japan into a war with the United States, and also decided that after defeating Japan, they would never again allow it to have the ability to self-defense.
This was 4 months BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor attack.
In other words, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to fight and destroy Japan and then make Japan a colony of the United States.
Also, it means that no matter how much Japan shows diplomatic compromise and obedience to the United States, the United States was going to keep provoking until Japan made a preemptive strike.
Incidentally, the United States was preparing to start a war against Japan from the United States in China in case Japan did not make a preemptive attack.
This attack plan was called “JB. No. 355.”
Since then, the United States has been repeating the same thing over and over again. It provokes war all over the world, slaughtering people in other countries and making money. But more than half of the world is already aware of it.
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@CiderVG
Today it is becoming clear that NOT everything the Allies accused Japan of committing during World War II was true.
Like recent, the Allied Powers released a large amount of propaganda (fake news) to increase their fighting spirit.
After the war, the Allies further distorted and used them to cover up their own dirty deeds and their own war crimes.
For example, the Nanjing massacre is one such propaganda.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party claims that the number of victims of Nanjing at that time was 300,000.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was announced to be 200,000.
And when the Japanese army left Nanjing, there were about 220,000 to 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason the number of people after the Japanese army withdrew is higher than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is because Nanjing citizens who had evacuated due to fear of fighting returned to Nanjing.
This story was then further distorted by the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify the emotional lynching of the Tokyo Trials or war crimes against Japan such as atomic bombings.
In particular, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that the Japanese army had killed 1 million people at the Tokyo Trials, including the massacre of 200,000 people in this fictitious Nanjing Massacre.
After that, the Chinese Communist Party, which did not fight the Japanese army, increased its "Chinese casualties'' year by year.
Those who blindly support Chinese claims should first present objective historical facts or documents to prove their claims, but what they call evidence is only hearsay, rumors and photoshoped pictures.
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@AdamantLightLP
I think most people don’t know the historical facts
At the Tokyo Trials, it was determined that Japan began its invasion with the Manchurian Incident.
However, in a report written in 1937, McMurray, then the US ambassador in Beijing, wrote:
"I condemn Japan for causing the Manchurian Incident. However, it was China that created the cause. Compared to other countries, all diplomats in each country admit that Japan has made the most sincere efforts to protect the Washington regime. On the other hand, China continued to provoke Japan. Japan could not stand it and asked the American and European countries that agreed to the Washington system to review the Washington system. However, the U.S. and European countries, especially the U.S. government, stood on the Chinese side and ignored Japan's request."
"As the U.S. and European countries acquiesced to China's tyrannical behavior, Japan embarked on the Manchurian Incident. Japan is responsible for the Manchurian Incident itself, but considering the process of getting there, the Incident itself is like reaping the seeds that China has sown itself."
Although the Litton Investigation Team's report states that it is a problem that the Japanese military wiped out Chinese warlords who committed atrocities against Japanese residents, it also states that the cause of this result was on the Chinese side, too.
However, those evidences against Chiang Kai-shek was ignored at the Tokyo Trials, because it was effectively a lynching of Japan by the Allies.
Chiang Kai-shek claimed that there were approximately 1 million victims in China, including 200,000 hypothetical victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
However, when Chiang Kai-shek tried to kill the Japanese, he did not care that the Chinese who were die with collateral damage.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek destroyed the embankments of the Yellow River and caused floods in order to escape. The collapse killed millions of Chinese people downstream.
Furthermore, as Kuomintang forces committed atrocities against Japanese residents throughout China, including the Tongzhou Incident, the Japanese gathered in Shanghai to return home, but Chiang Kai-shek surrounded the Shanghai Concession and bombarded it with artillery and air. At this time, there were approximately 30,000 Japanese people as well as many Chinese people in Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek attacked them indiscriminately.
It's hard to believe that Chiang Kai-shek counted such Chinese victims as victims of his strategy.Therefore, it must be said that there is great doubt as to whether the ``number of victims'' claimed by Chiang Kai-shek is reasonable.
After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party began claiming the Nanjing Massacre and suddenly began to increase the number of casualties caused by Japanese soldiers.
Allied nationals believe China's claims without question, but they have not considered the evidence to support them.
As mentioned above, there is no evidence to prove the number of victims of the Nanking massacre. Similarly, there is no evidence to prove the number of victims that the Chinese Communist Party has exploded.
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@dutchroyalnavy1
Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, both Kuomintang forces and Japanese forces claimed to have been shot by the other side.
However, the Japanese military had a rule against using live ammunition in military exercises.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Japanese army to shoot Kuomintang soldiers.
Furthermore, in order to prevent the conflict from escalating, the Japanese side immediately began peace negotiations immediately after the incident occurred.
Over the next three weeks, the Japanese side signed four peace agreements with Chiang Kai-shek.
However, incidents of assault, looting, and massacres by Chinese against Japanese residents occurred frequently, and incidents of abduction and massacre of Japanese soldiers also occurred sporadically.
As a result, all these peace agreements were abolished.
Particularly brutal massacres occurred in Tongzhou, where more than 200 Japanese residents were brutally murdered.
According to a newspaper article at the time,
"The Chinese were cutting up and killing Japanese infants, children, and elderly people.
All of the bodies of women in their late teens or older had been raped. Their bodies had sticks thrust into their crotches to humiliate them.
The body of a pregnant woman was found with her abdomen cut vertically. Her fetus had been removed and it had been crushed.
The bodies of several men were dragged with ropes, torn off from the waist down, and dumped in a pond...”
Assaults and massacres against Japanese people by Chinese people continued not only in Tongzhou but also in other parts of China.
The Tianjin Concession, where 10,000 Japanese residents lived, and Shanghai, where 30,000 Japanese residents had gathered, were surrounded by the Chinese side and subjected to artillery and air strikes.
Due to these events, Japan decided to increase its military. That led the conflict to war.
Since Chiang Kai-shek was given huge money and weapons by the United States, he might not have been able to call for a cease-fire like Σelenskyy has been doing now.
However, even in that case, it was Chiang Kai-shek and the United States who provoked and caused the proxy war, not Japan.
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I have to say that I have doubts about the number of casualties caused by the Japanese military as claimed by the Chinese side.
At the post-war Tokyo Trials, Chiang Kai-shek stated that the number of victims was about 1,000,000, including 200,000 in the Nanjing Massacre.
However, although it is claimed that a massacre occurred during the Nanjing Incident, there is no objective evidence of the massacre, only hearsay and rumors.
The Chinese Communist Party now claims the number of victims is 300,000 of Nanjing incident.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, it was announced that the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese army left Nanjing, there were about 220,000 to 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason the number of people after the Japanese army withdrew is higher than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is because Nanjing citizens who had evacuated due to fear of fighting returned to Nanjing.
Don't people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing think it's strange to hear these numbers?
And I also have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the CCP, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because all of their claims are also based on hearsay and rumors, but there is no objective evidence.
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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese”.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. LeMay's airstrike method was very ruthless and merciless. That method burned down the area after burning all the edges of the planned airstrike area first so that no one could escape from the area. In the Tokyo air raid on March 10, 1945, more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burned to death in two hours.
Westerners often interpret that Japan did not have the will to surrender to the Allies because it was preparing for the decisive battle on the mainland.
However, when the enemy is ignoring you for a ceasefire consultation and attacking, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack "landing operation on the country", isn't it?
Kantaro Suzuki was the Prime Minister, who was clearly appointed by the Emperor with the intention of ending the war.
For the Japanese government, the Potsdam Declaration was a response from the United States that had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were military leaders who insisted that they should wait for the mediation of the Soviet Union.
Also, the fact that the number of victims reported from Hiroshima immediately after the atomic bombing was about 80,000, which was less than the 115,000 victims of the Tokyo air raid on March 10 also affected the meeting.
So, the Japanese government could not accept the Potsdam Declaration immediately because some of leaders refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
However, on August 9, the Soviet started invasion.
This invasion cut off the hopes of some leaders who were pro-Soviets, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese”.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. LeMay's airstrike method was very ruthless and merciless. That method burned down the area after burning all the edges of the planned airstrike area first so that no one could escape from the area. In the Tokyo air raid on March 10, 1945, more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burned to death in two hours.
Westerners often interpret that Japan did not have the will to surrender to the Allies because it was preparing for the decisive battle on the mainland.
However, when the enemy is ignoring you for a ceasefire consultation and attacking, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack "landing operation on the country", isn't it?
Kantaro Suzuki was the Prime Minister, who was clearly appointed by the Emperor with the intention of ending the war.
For the Japanese government, the Potsdam Declaration was a response from the United States that had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were military leaders who insisted that they should wait for the mediation of the Soviet Union.
Also, the fact that the number of victims reported from Hiroshima immediately after the atomic bombing was about 80,000, which was less than the 115,000 victims of the Tokyo air raid on March 10 also affected the meeting.
So, the Japanese government could not accept the Potsdam Declaration immediately because some of leaders refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
However, on August 9, the Soviet started invasion.
This invasion cut off the hopes of some leaders who were pro-Soviets, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
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