An Apology Is Owed To Japan For Hiroshima & Nagasaki Video

Video Title :	An Apology Is Owed To Japan For Hiroshima & Nagasaki Video
Description :	The United States of America Should Apologize to Japan. An animated film is presented which is shown in Hiroshima each year to school children. Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble. What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet. On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless. On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital. Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s." Public domain film.
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Keywords, Tags :	Hiroshima Nagasaki Japan atomic bomb apology apologize Japanese America war nuclear surrender bombings attacks attack US
Video Length :	8 : 28

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How many killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 200,000 to 300,000.During WWII Japanese killed 6 million in China alone.If you count rest of Asia then you get over 10 million lives killed by the Japanese from the beginning of their colonization in the early 20th century to the end of WWII..Why is Japan saying they are the victims of WWII(?)& continue to Whitewash their history books still never apologizing UNEQUIVOCALLY? All Japanese good and bad, please go and look in the mirror...

It is so absurd and sad, to see the peace memorial & peace day in Hiroshima being used as portraying the Japanese as the major victims of WWII, but quietly skimming over WHY the bombs were dropped and ignoring that millions of lives had already been killed by the Japanese & these bombs were used to put an end to Japanese bloody Rampage through Asia from the beginning of 20th century(Japanese Colonialism) to end of WWII. Japan, your hands are still bloody & your lies to this day so clear

Korean behaved as "Japanese" in WW2. And, Korean did a cruel thing in various parts of Asia. Korean killed Chinese in Manchuria.War end,Russian was guided, and Japanese was attacked. After WW2,Japanese paid all compensation to those crimes. Korean soldier took the shape of the US soldier in Vietnam war. A lot of slaughters & rapes were done by a Korean soldier. Korean has taken the shape of the European & American in YouTube. And, Korean is actively shouting "Cruelty of Japan".

In WW2, "Korean soldier was more brutal than the regular force in Japan. Korean soldier intruded into to the private house in Hong Kong, and they raped residents. In causing such crime, most was a Korean soldier. At that time, the Hong Kong resident hated Korean soldier more intensely than Japanese armies. Korean had gone in the opium sales and the prostitution of Hong Kong." (謝永光 "What did a Japanese army do in Hong Kong?")

From Charles Augustus Lindbergh "World War II aviation history" Japanese soldier was killed. Because the gold tooth and the sword etc.are stolen from Japanese soldier's corpse. Japanese soldier was not made "captive". The skull that had killed the captive, was taken home as a souvenir. ("A soldier of the United States makes the skeleton a souvenir" is drawn by "Barefoot GEN" too.) "A Japanese bone and meat" was US soldier's souvenir.

Philippine-American War(1899-1913) To make the Philippines a colony, the United States attacked the Philippines. The United States slaughtered 600,000　Philipinos. The United States made Filipino who had cooperated in the United States a landowner. The United States handled Filipino as "Living Escutcheon" at the World War II end. And, the landowner system continues still in the Philippines, and it causes the Discriminatory society in the Philippines. Before war, who trust the USA ?

After World War II. The United States made the base in various parts of Japan. Islands of Japan were occupied for tens of years. The Soviet Union keeps occupying northern territories in Japan in military power. South Korea abducted 3,929 Japanese, and stole Takeshima in Japan. China doubled the territory. &, China tries to steal Senkaku Islands in Japan. After World War II, the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and Korea concocted a lot of "Crime of Japan". They want "Excuse".

Liar, the US never killed that many Filipinos and mostly they killed vicious moros (muslims) in the South. The Philippines fought with the US against Japan and the people never caved when the Japs abused them. They were patriots! F- Japan, they are lucky we only dropped two bombs!

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