A New Perspective

[Arthur Fuller]

Do you have any evidence for tha? I would think that 130,000 people killed
in an instant would have demonstrated the futility of further conflict, but
then about a week later came Nagasaki. what are armies and navies to do
versus nukes?
To look at it another way, within a decade Japan displaced many US
companies such as Morotorla, RCA Victor and others as the premier suppliers
of stereos, TVs and so on. After that came the Chinese wave, but the bottom
line is that the USA lost its grip because the corporations thought it more
profitable to send the jobs to Asia than to keep them at home. This applies
also to the garment industry (Guess, Tommy Hilfiger and numerous others);
it's not just a high-tech off-load. It goes all the way down to basic
foodstuffs

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Arthur