Posted on 05/11/2016 7:14:03 AM PDT by PROCON
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology.
Even those who want one realize that such a demand would have ruled out a U.S. presidential visit.
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I didn’t know if I would be banned for posting this picture of an actual Japanese product, so I linked it instead:
https://kushiteprince.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/japan-racism.jpg
Nanking? How about those two Japanese officers who had a contest to see who could behead the most Chinese women in one day? Are the Japanese going to apologize for that? Human experimentation (Worse than the Nazis.)? Throwing their own civilians off the cliff at Saipan? Shooting Medics? Torturing POWs? Cutting the penises off of corpses?
Japan was a brutal aggressive warmongering culture. Everyone hated them who lived near them. They could never apologize enough for their centuries of wars in Korea. Jeez. The list of Japanese brutality is endless. If they start now they might cover everything about the time that the Sun goes out.
He is either going to announce a major cutback in US nuclear weapons or a major change in nuclear force posture.
this visit provides too irresistible an opportunity.
probably no apology but he would be sorely tempted to mimic the Japanese habit of professing an opportunity for **National reflection**.
that is a universally recognized code term in Japan for a non-apology apology.
they will absolutely understand and they will absolutely take that as a US apology.
Obama will apologize for the US making the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and having the nerve to win the war with those evil atomic Bombs .Obama will try to destroy all US Nuclear weapons before he leaves
Unfortunately I’ve had the experience of millennials saying such things on the internet. They’re all about radical pacifism, unless you’re talking about conservatives.
I always feel that not only do I say exactly what you did about the situation, but considering how much these little imbeciles hate America, I actually start off by explaining how many JAPANESE lives were saved by those two bombs.
The Japanese were willing to fight and die to the last man, woman, and pre-teen child. Their civilians were prepared to become a fighting force, and the Japanese went by the Bushido code and didn’t care for the Geneva conventions.
We’re talking over 1,000,000 well-armed U.S. soldiers and Marines, with bombers loaded with incendiary bombs, against a force essentially armed with mostly knives, pitchforks, and other household and farming implements.
The very conservative estimate of Japanese deaths in a mainland invasion would be 2,000,000 - twice what Allied forces would suffer.
Once the mush heads explain how you’re wrong about the numbers, I then ask them the political and moral question:
If everything was the same on the timetable of creating the atomic bomb (which it would have been - we were creating it to use against Hitler), and Truman did NOT use it, but instead let an invasion go forward with millions of deaths, what would you think of Truman today?
Compare and contrast with the recent Russian VE-Day parade in Moscow.
Moscow makes no apologies for defeating Nazi Germany.
I thought the Japanese liked honorable people?
They should ban obama as he is not honorable at all.
In fairness a lot of Japanese our age have no idea that WW2 happened and they have no idea that Japan started it. They really and truly believe that the atomic bombings were carried out by a USA that was bent on restraining Japan’s power.
And Obama is playing along.
Sons of the Pioneers “Old Man Atom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-oJLq5rWo
One of my favorites.
Great song, I’d never heard it before!
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