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Yeah, I remember reading about Anami. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I guess possibly you are hinting at Seppuku as far as a way to end the war, in his mind I guess. I don’t mean this in the literal sense, just the mind of one in his position as it relates
Yeah I think he likened the Japanese people dying out entirely by atomic weapons to the death of a flower. Weird dude. He only accepted surrender when the emperor commanded it and then he committed seppuku the day after.
edit found the quote with some context:
However the Japanese leadership had no way to know the size of the United States' stockpile, and feared the United States might have the capacity not just to devastate individual cities, but to wipe out the Japanese people as a race and nation. Indeed, Anami expressed a desire for this outcome rather than surrender, asking if it would "not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower".
Yeah, sad to think about. But it in a very strange way makes sense considering things we aren’t familiar or comfortable with. I’m not condoning it by any means, but I’m not understanding of traditional Japanese culture either.
Can’t say I understand it either but I think anyone willing to sacrifice an entire nation for glory is pretty bad. Not to mention all the biological experimentation on humans and forced sex slavery
Very true, culture or not, at some point we are all human beings. There is no excuse for that. I absolutely agree
Wow, thanks for posting. Yeah weird dude for sure. Culture or not, I think modern mental health DRs or professionals probably have a unique group to include him into.
My grandfather told me that in his prison camp, the Japanese guards would strap a POW face-down and naked on a table, put a fire hose up to his rectum and then turn it on full blast and watch him die in excruciating pain. Part of it was that in the Japanese world view, surrender to preserve your life was cowardly, so they had no respect for the men they had cpatured. As an honor-based culture, the concept of instrinsic value of an individul life did not exist; you were only as worthy as your hoonorable actions for the good of society as a whole.
I’ve read things similar to that train of thought. Hard to argue with someone that was actually in a Japanese POW camp.
The Japanese weren’t some noble samurai warriors as legend and movies suggest. They were systematically committing crimes against humanity against the Chinese and Koreans and everyone else they conquered or captured. If they’d had nuclear weapons, they 100% would have used them for conquest and subjugation. We used the bomb to stop those crimes and their conquest. Yes, it’s sad that it took such a huge and imprecise weapon on civilians to bring them to their knees, but that’s their fault and shame, not ours.
Don’t December 7th if you don’t want to get August 6th!
The Japanese thought of themselves as the Master Race. Foreigners were a lower species of human. Defeat was inconceivable. Defeat was worse than death.
The Germans on the other hand were known for treating their military prisoners very well. It's just a difference of culture. We also saw this brutality in Korea and Vietnam. To surrender was the highest offense. No regard for human life. By the time WWII had come along, Japan had already pretty much brutalized all of Asia, especially China.
Concur. They were every bit as ruthless and despicable as Germany. There is a book called "The Rape of Nanking" about the Japanese invasion of China and the capture of the Chinese capitol Nanking in the 1930s. Absolutely as horrific as anything the Germans did to the Jews in WWII. The Japanese military were bad people back then. They literally saw all foreigners as subhuman. To this day, Japan and China are mortal enemies. Japan has yet to admit it even happened.
The Japanese attempted to systemically remove a whole race of people to the tune of 6 million killed?
Yeah, pretty much. They tried. Absolutely horrific what the Japanese did to the Chinese population. Read up on the Japanese torture squad, Unit 731, which by itself tortured and killed upwards of half a million people. The Germans just did it on a larger scale to their own population. The Chinese fought back and prevented absolute genocide. The Japanese invasion of China has been called the Forgotten Holocaust. Some estimates claim that around 10-15 million Chinese non-combatants were killed by the Japanese.
27 Rape Of Nanking Photos And Facts That Reveal Its True Horrors (allthatsinteresting.com)
The Japanese Occupation of China 1937-45: The Divided Opposition and its Consequences by David White | Open History Society