Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 56 minutes later[^][v]#1,417,314
The Japanese warrior mentality in a nutshell:
Hirohito before the war: "Aight, yung Japanese bois, y’all gotta go die for me now. And don’t ever surrender, die before you surrender. Kill your brother before you snitch on Japan."
Hirohito after the war: "Alright, I’m fixing to surrender, but just so y’all know, I did nothing wrong. That war thing? I was not involved with that. And no I’m not gonna kill myself, you crazy? America said I’m still the king and you ain’t. 😎"
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 58 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,417,323
Japan didn’t have fuel, industry, logistics, or resourcing for the kind of war they fought. They dispersed their forces and were even more fucked after Midway. They never excelled at using tanks because they used the same French doctrine that failed in 1940.
> The Japanese warrior mentality in a nutshell: > > Hirohito before the war: "Aight, yung Japanese bois, y’all gotta go die for me now. And don’t ever surrender, die before you surrender. Kill your brother before you snitch on Japan." > > Hirohito after the war: "Alright, I’m fixing to surrender, but just so y’all know, I did nothing wrong. That war thing? I was not involved with that. And no I’m not gonna kill myself, you crazy? America said I’m still the king and you ain’t. 😎"
Bushido was weird because it was all about accepting death and dying for one’s master. Not a lot of strategy in a lot of the writings, and the old writings focus on strategies and tactics for sword fighting. Nothing at the level of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,417,357
@previous (D)
Ngl I think it’s a little bit silly that we killed Japanese civilians but let the emperor live because we actually believed imperial Japanese propaganda that all the civilians wanted to die for their emperor.
Anonymous E double-posted this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,417,358
I found some YouTube video where one of the last surviving pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor explained what his thoughts were about the whole thing, and he expressed the whole emperor thing was kinda bs and didn’t have much to do with why he did it.
> Ngl I think it’s a little bit silly that we killed Japanese civilians but let the emperor live because we actually believed imperial Japanese propaganda that all the civilians wanted to die for their emperor.
There was a civil defense manual where Japanese civilians were to be armed with bamboo spears. The regular army probably would have acted as blocker units. The Soviets used these to stop the 1941 retreat; shooting your own people forces them to fight.
It’s still ridiculous what was done to Tokyo. The atomic bombs also had less effect on Japanese surrender than the Soviets annihilating the Kwantung Army in Manchuria.