"just for the record After the first bomb was dropped Tojo was given the warning to surrender or another bomb would be dropped he chose to ignore this advice so the next one was dropped on Nagasaki with the warning the next would be dropped in down town Tokyo"

Just for the record that I have uncovered, the Emperor traditionally did not interfere in the day to day running of life, including the war.

It was the Military leaders in the Govt who refused to surrender - not wanting to lose face - in musch the same way the a certain German - dammn! there goes Godwin's Law again - would rather have the entire country reduced to ashes than surrender. The Emperor made his first ever direct radio broadcast to the public - and surprised many by declaring unconditional surrender (which is why he did not tell the Govt what he was going to do - there was some talk of him being assassinated and overthrown if he publicly expressed such 'weakness'), because he felt that further civilian suffering was pointless.


"We ordered them out of China, we ordered them out of Indo China, we ordered them out of the islands of the South Pacific, we stopped all shipments to Japan,and the last straw was when FDR froze their assets in this country." thus "Japan did not start the war. We did, as usual."

Hmm, the Japanese were pretty bloody minded about wanting to secure resources across the whole region by riding roughshod over anybody who stood in their way - when some countries stopped the resource flow to them or otherwise obstructed them, they felt that they had no choice but to destroy them.

Hmmm, Korea, Vietnam, South America, Iraq, Iran....


[Don't mention the war, I did, but I think got away with it!]