[bus man]

I realize that we were fighting a war at the time, so we had to sink the enemy's combatant ships. But in the hindsight of history, it's a true shame that the Musashi (or her sister, the Yamato) couldn't have been saved and preserved as a museum. Or, failing that, I wish we would have preserved the Nagato (Japan's sole surviving battleship) or raised the Haruna (left half-sunk in a shallow harbor) and preserved her.

[elcid1970]

IIRC, the few Japanese warships still afloat after V-J Day in 1945 were towed into the middle of Tokyo Bay & blown up by the Allies.

Remember the Betty bombers painted white with green crosses that carried the Japanese surrender delegation? I have seen photos showing every last surviving Jap airplane with the Rising Sun meatball painted over with a white square & a green cross.

Surrender meant surrender even if the Emperor kept his throne.