Why Japan surrendered in 1945?

[Larry Davis]

Pardon for the slight tangential aside.

John, I commend you on your choice of Avatar.

[Hofstetter]

Re: earlier comments, The Aussies had a something like a 44% fatality rate as prisoners of the Japanese and 3% fatality rate as prisoners of the Germans.

That says it all for me.

[Gary Jucha]

W

Well at least we have not had 70 years of whinging and lame "comparison" excuses from the Japanese ...

We are talking about the Japanese - the Germans have gone some way to atone, the Japanese nothing. As far as they are concerned they never did anything wrong, and never lost the war either. And this is what they teach today.

[merdock]

Well at least we have not had 70 years of whinging and lame "comparison" excuses from the Japanese ...

They probably think it was there destiny to lose.

[Seigfried]

They probably think it was there destiny to lose.

Good job it didn't go to penalties.

[chrischa]

Good job it didn't go to penalties.

No, they'd have won then.

[Robert Shoaf]

Re: earlier comments, The Aussies had a something like a 44% fatality rate as prisoners of the Japanese and 3% fatality rate as prisoners of the Germans.

That says it all for me.

I believe that the Japanese plan was to kill all Allied POW's if an invasion of the Home Islands occurred.

Bob Shoaf

[Robert Shoaf]

Since you only seem to whine about the US at every opportunity my question is why are you here in the first place? I'm starting to think an American ran off with your wife or mother......

Methinks he adheres to the Howard Zinn version of American history.

Bob Shoaf

[Gary Jucha]

Well

Well they got their arses kicked twice in their favourite sport in the 20th century ....

Good job it didn't go to penalties.

[Totenhead]

Even before ww2 officially started, the Japanese were being quite barbaric, re: The Nanking Massacre, really quite shocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

Did they ever apologise to the Chinese for that ?? .....

[N.C. Wyeth]

Did they apologize . . . or did they not?

Even before ww2 officially started, the Japanese were being quite barbaric, re: The Nanking Massacre, really quite shocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

Did they ever apologise to the Chinese for that ?? .....

Since you chose Wikipedia as your source, maybe we can refer to the Wiki link on Official apologies from Japan for an answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

To me, the information offered in the link, seems contradictory to some of the views expressed in previous comments . . . The good thing about Wikipedia, is you have an opportunity to change the information - and keep it changed . . . if you can provide factual evidence to support your claim.

[Totenhead]

Whether they apologised or not, does that make it ok ????.....

[Jon Fish]

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Is that Obama visiting his local Chinese restaurant, wasn't aware he was a fan of Chinese cuisine?

[Jon Fish]

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[chen]

Obama having sushi in Japan.