The ghost of wartimes past

Economist ^ | 11/06/08 | Staff

[DFG]

MANY Japanese were surprised that a hotel chain, under a cloud for shoddy earthquake-proofing standards, should sponsor a competition for the best essay to deny Japan’s wartime role as an aggressor and sponsor of atrocities. But then the chain’s boss, Toshio Motoya, is a vigorous historical revisionist (and big supporter of Shinzo Abe, prime minister in 2006-07). More astounding, then: the competition winner, Toshio Tamogami, was none other than the head of Japan’s air force.

[skeeter]

Pearl Harbour was an American-laid trap.

Isn't that where America cleverly fooled Japan into expending dozens of their finest torpedos?

[Emperor Palpatine]

You know, I know a very talented violinist who is originally from China. She lost all four of her grandparents and several other family members in what has become known as the Rape of Nanking.

She once told me that “You Americans were right dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, but why did you only drop two? You should have dropped ten.”

[DFG]

We only had 1 more atomic bomb available when Japan surrendered. Maybe we were saving it for use on the Russian Army. They declared war on Japan in between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and gobbled up the Kurile Islands.

[Emperor Palpatine]

According to both Thomas/Morgan-Witts' book "Enola Gay" and Tibbets' autobiography, there were 15 more in production that would have been ready in about 45 days to 2 months. Hanford was producing plutonium at an astounding rate once they got geared up and there would have been plenty of bombs in a very short time.