CARRIER PLANES SWOOP ON TOKYO AREA; B-29’S ALSO SCORE, SOME GO 3,960 MILES (7/10/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/10/45 | W.H. Lawrence, George E. Jones, Lindesay Parrott, Tillman Durdin

[colorado tanker]

Evil, pure evil.

[chajin]

My guess, and it’s just a guess, is that the leaders are banking on the harvest in Manchukuo getting through the blockade, and then creating such a bloodbath during the invasion that the surrender will not be unconditional. Two things that they are not banking on are the atomic bombs and the Soviets, who are technically neutral, invading Manchuria.

[henkster]

Of course I am referring to the Japanese leadership as being war criminals. At some point, when the extermination of the population is unavoidable, the leadership isn’t continuing the war based on the national interest, but a personal one.

[henkster]

If the leadership thinks anything is getting through the blockade at this point, they are delusional. Not only that, but even if any stocks of food had been delivered from Manchukuo, there was no way to distribute it to the people. So much of the Japanese strategy was based on wishful thinking. Or maybe the leadership was so out of touch with the situation they didn’t know just how badly the daily economic fabric of Japanese society had been shredded.

The point is that dropping the bombs was made inevitable and unavoidable buy such pig-headedness. Even

[Rebelbase]

Wasn’t Sendai one of the places that got hit by the Tsunami several years ago? The airport videos, IRCC.

[chajin]

Sendai was affected by the earthquake, and the airport was under water. Trains were able to get to Sendai from Tokyo in a few days but getting further north to help those closer to the worst of the destruction took much longer.

A high school classmate just came from a visit to Sendai recently. I couldn’t tell much difference between the pictures he took and mine from 2006, which indicates much of the earthquake damage has been repaired there. Fukushima is another story.