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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    I remember the day Emperor Hirohito died, or maybe it was the day after. I was headed up into Tokyo from Yokohama to teach at a Bible...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    It's a great discussion.
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    I have to backtrack on one thing. It was Uchimura Kanzo, another Japanese Christian leader in the days of WW2, not Nitobe Inazo...
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    John of Japan reacted to Salty's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    John - Very interesting report! Thanks for the input
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    One thing not mentioned yet is the Japanese philosophy of bushido (武士道), meaning the "way of the warrior." The classical book on this is...
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    John of Japan reacted to rockytopva's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    Adolf Hitler died by suicide in April 30 of 1945. Here the Japanese were still fighting three months later. The United States had no...
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    John of Japan reacted to Foxmeister's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    I think you're all over the place. First of all, go back and read again what I posted. There was no way Japan was going to surrender...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    Thank you for the kind words. I simply saw the post and simply did not notice that it was not to me! Regardless, I stand by all that I...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    Let me explain what was going on before the A-bombs and the Japanese surrender. First of all, on the warmongering side were the State...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    Propaganda??? Did you miss the fact that I lived there for 33 years and speak and read the language fluently??? I've read many books...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    This is well said, and all true. I've been to Okinawa and seen the cave headquarters of the Japanese leaders, and the cliff where the...
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    John of Japan reacted to Foxmeister's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    The email stated, "Japan was already close to collapse due to a prolonged naval blockade and conventional bombings, and its surrender...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    As one who lived in Japan for 33 years, is fluent in the language (I've written books in Japanese), still has friends in the country...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    As you know I'm sure, millions of civilian Chinese were killed by the Japanese. In the so-called "Rape of Nanking," the Japanese army...
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    John of Japan replied to the thread The . . . good wine . . . ..
    Now you are finally answering factually rather than in generalizations.
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