It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Japanese anti-war campaigners said they planned a "people's tribunal" over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that could symbolically hold the United States responsible for war crimes.
The activists said the failure to pursue criminal charges over the bombings in the final days of World War II led to the expansion of nuclear weapons and further wars, such as those seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"But our aim is to spur movement towards abolishing nuclear weapons," [Toshiyuki Tanaka] said.
Originally posted by TheBandit795
I might as well post this link again...
www.thenausea.com...
Japan, as a Constitutional Monarchy, could only enter into a peace agreement with the unanimous support of the Japanese cabinet, and this cabinet was dominated by militarists from the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy, all of whom were initially opposed to any peace deal.
Nearly 200,000 Japanese and 12,000 American troops were killed in the most bloody battle of the Pacific theater, just 8 weeks before Japan�s final surrender.
the Japanese Imperial Army ordered its ill supplied and weakened forces in Manchuria to fight to the last man, an order which it carried out.
as a result of the war, noncombatants were dying throughout Asia at a rate of ~200,000 per month
[on the topic of an order given]The order dealt with the disposal and execution of all Allied POW's, numbering over 100,000, if an invasion of the Japanese mainland took place.
Originally posted by curme
Apparently, some of this board feel they have a better grasp on the subject than General Eisenhower.
[edit on 6-12-2004 by curme]
Originally posted by TheBandit795
I might as well post this link again...
www.thenausea.com...
Originally posted by TheBandit795
I might as well post this link again...
www.thenausea.com...
Originally posted by Majic
...on the 63rd anniversary of the craven and cowardly attack by the Japanese on U.S. forces in Pearl Harbor, I find it impossible not to respond.
To promote the memories of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the victims of the Japanese aggression which directly resulted in their deaths is, in my opinion, criminally immoral. Remaining silent in the face of it would be only slightly less immoral.
If you want to knock the U.S., fine. At least have the decency to admit that we are not the source of all evil. To do otherwise is to do evil.
Please, on this if on nothing else, I urge everyone following this discussion to Deny Ignorance!
Originally posted by DrHoracid
The Germany were bad, the Jap's were worse.