A New Perspective

[rich]

Japan only surrendered because the Emperor stepped forward. I think much of
the Japanese general staff wanted to fight on

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 12:10 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> But Russia didn’t have the bomb, so their planned invasion (into China,
> notJapan) was weak tea.  Did Japan prefer US occupation to Russian
> occupation?  Probably.
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:52 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes. Good question.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:49 PM Jonathon Hunt <jhuntstl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Also, what really caused the US to drop the atomic bombs: Japan's
> refusal
> >> to surrender or Russia's planned invasion of Japan?
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 10:26 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/08/why-did-world-war-ii-end-2/
> >> >
> >> > August 6: Hiroshima bomb dropped.
> >> >
> >> > August 8: Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
> >> >
> >> > August 9: Nagasaki bomb dropped.
> >> >
> >> > August 10: Emperor Hirohito breaks the cabinet deadlock and decides
> that
> >> > Japan must surrender.
> >> >
> >> > So what really caused the Japanese to finally give up? Was it
> America’s
> >> > atomic bombs, or was it the Soviet Union’s entrance into the Pacific
> >> war?
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