>>despite all this, japan did not surrender despite the
>>possibility of annihilation. japan thought the US was
>>bluffing. too bad for them they should have not bombed pearl
>>harbor.
>
>Nah, Japan didn't think
>the U.S. was bluffing,
>they realized Truman
>was dead serious about
>the A-bomb. However, the
>concept of losing the
>emperor was a totally
>foreign concept to their
>culture.
>
>In the end, the U.S. allowed
>a war criminal to retain a
>figurehead position within
>the Japanese government.
>So much for justice.


i have to end this discussion here. i really have nothing to say to that. war never brings justice. in this case, war was an effect, not a cause. does killing 300,000 people in one sweeping moment demand an apology? i dont think so. but if you do think so, then there are a lot of things in this world that people need to start apologizing for and apologizing solves nothing because all is history. you can't take it back.