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It is not that we are brainwashed or whatever. Well, there is something special about killing 100,000 with ONE bomb and spewing everlasting radiation everywhere. Why is there no deep discussion or rancor for that? If people are truly angry over the loss of life, why is that not the focus of discussion instead of the nukes? The firebombing of Tokyo killed more civilians than either individual bomb. 06, 2015 - 04:51PM JSTĪctually what surprises me is that people are still talking about it here but neglect to compare it to Tokyo. There is actually quite a bit to be optimistic about in this scenario. Either would actually be favorable to the US. With a failure and without wars to fight, militaries (unlike Fascism) cannot legitimately demand powers.Īs for China, without one additional year of war wearying the Nationalists more than the Communists, what may have happened is a Nationalist victory or some kind of N/S split. With the inevitable reparations, the cut will obviously come from the military. It is interesting how in fact, Japan's defense % of GNP is a very healthy <3% all the way up to 1937. One thing that is very likely to happen is that the rights of the military would be greatly restricted. The alternative of them "sapping" up to a better position rather than it being installed and then incompletely fulfilled is interesting. Many would agree that the Japanese elite do not fully fulfill the Constitution, and part of it (the other part being every elite's silent wish to take away the common's rights) because their zeitgeist isn't there. If anything, one problem with the Japanese Constitution is that it is too good for Japan. However, in terms of the actual rights and freedoms of modern Japanese people, it is constructible from the old Meiji with the correct interpretations. While there is a debate on how much of the Japanese Constitution America wrote, it is indisputable that the current Constitution was beyond the zeitgeist of the Japanese political elite, so it is impossible to see Japan putting it in place on their own.
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It is actually an interesting problem of what Japan and East Asia would be like if they somehow managed to get a peace around the end of 1944. I don't know, Jeff, I've been told the Taisho era wasn't bad either. The country has since enjoyed freedom, prosperity, equality and peace like never before in its otherwise grim and intolerant history.