Remembering Hiroshima

And after everything the Emperor put this country through...their going to name an official holiday after him:


Two previous attempts, five years and two years ago, failed to pass the Diet due to strong opposition from the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party. This time, however, the bill, introduced by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New Komeito, is expected to become law with support from the opposition Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan). Both the communists and the social democrats have lost many Diet seats in the meantime.

Until the end of World War II, April 29, the birthday of Emperor Showa, was called Tenchosetsu, which meant the day to pray for the emperor's long life. After Emperor Hirohito died in January 1989, his birth date was renamed Greenery Day. This required a revision of the national holidays law. The latest LDP-Komeito bill says the purpose of changing the holidays name again to Showa Day is to recall the Showa Era (1926-1989), during which Japan experienced devastating war and vigorous economic recovery, and thereby reflect on the future of the nation.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-...504070147.html

This has to be the kicker! This new holiday brought to you by the " ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan"!

BWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :rolleyes:

In the fall of 1940, the Japanese army concluded that constructing an atomic bomb was indeed feasible. The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, or Rikken, was assigned the project under the direction of Yoshio Nishina. The Japanese Navy was also diligently working to create its own "superbomb" under a project was dubbed F-Go, headed by Bunsaku Arakatsu at the end of World War II. The F-Go program [or No. F, for fission] began at Kyoto in 1942. However, the military commitment wasn't backed with adequate resources, and the Japanese effort to an atomic bomb had made little progress by the end of the war.

Japan's nuclear efforts were disrupted in April 1945 when a B-29 raid damaged Nishina's thermal diffusion separation apparatus. Some reports claim the Japanese subsequently moved their atomic operations Konan [Hungnam, now part of North Korea]. The Japanese may have used this facility at for making small quantities of heavy water. The Japanese plant was captured by Soviet troops at war's end, and some reports claim that the output of the Hungnam plant was collected every other month by Soviet submarines.


There are indications that Japan had a more sizable program than is commonly understood, and that there was close cooperation among the Axis powers, including a secretive exchange of war materiel. The German submarine U-234, which surrendered to US forces in May 1945, was found to be carrying 560 kilograms of Uranium oxide destined for Japan's own atomic program. The oxide contained about 3.5 kilograms of the isotope U-235, which would have been about a fifth of the total U-235 needed to make one bomb. After Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945, the occupying US Army found five Japanese cyclotrons, which could be used to separate fissionable material from ordinary uranium. The Americans smashed the cyclotrons and dumped them into Tokyo Harbor.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/japan/nuke/

How "humane" do you think the Japanese would have been?

There where some in the U.S goverment (scientists) that wanted the bomb dropped on one of the smaller islands off the coast of japan to show the japanese goverment what will befall them if they didn't surrender to the U.S.

Yah gosh, we should have really gave them more of a chance! :rolleyes:NOT!

Yes that's only one of the reasons the bomb was droped!
The U.S knew what the P.O.W'S where going through, plus if they
invaded japan the loss of U.S ground force's would be in the hundred's
of thousand if not a million or more. So the first a-bomb fell and the
Japanese goverment still wouldn't surrender! They where trying to
find a way to save face, as the japanese put it. So the second a-bomb
was droped, and after two a-bomb's killed ten's of thousand's, the japanese military still wanted to fight! But the goverment of japan said that's it,we surrender, the war with the U.S. is over.

who cares??the roads to freedom and democracy are paved in blood!!

fucking bleeding hearts.get the fuck over it

thank God the rest of the world does not think like you....

the MAJORITY obviously does.

This all reminds me of an episode of South Park I watched last night...here is Cartmans speach:

I learned somethin' today. This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truely great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn't want to. You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it's made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we'd get taken down in a second. That's why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It's called "having your cake and eating it too."

Having our cake and eating it too! The American Way!!!!!


BWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! :D Peace folks!!!