Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto
No, I did not watch that show since I don't watch TV. You claimed that every member of the Japanese race (not even the Japanese nation, but the entire race, even Japanese-Americans!) would have died for their Emperor, and you get this information from a TV show. Now, I'm no expert on psychology, but I'm sure that there were people living in Japan who did not want to die for the Emperor. They probably weren't really vocal about it, but it's kind of difficult to get EVERYONE in a country to be willing to die for a cause.

The French may not have liked turning in Jews to the Nazis or even liked it...but they still did it! The difference is, they considered the Emperor to be a God.

Well, there's no reason to give away the exact time and place, but they didn't even try to notify Japan that they had this weapon. They just assumed the Japanese wouldn't have believed them and went on with the murdering.

Went on with the murdering? Damn right. After China, Peril Harbor, Kamakazi pilots, the Bataan Death March, etc....... Why the hell should have we cut any slack. We offered terms of surrender and it didn't take one bomb BUT TWO to convince them!

As somebody already mentioned, it is impossible to know what would have happened had the situation been handled more humanely. But I still see no reason why the nuclear weapons could not have been demonstrated without targeting some of the most densely populated areas of Japan.

HELLO!!! It took TWO times to convince these people they were done!

So they had the power to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who you claim were all willing to "die for their Emperor" yet they couldn't have just bombed the fucking Emperor and his military cabinet who were responsible for the whole war? They could have at least fit in some non-innocent deaths there...and it would surely break the Emperor's back! I'm just saying, there were probably other solutions which could have dealt with the situation in a more humane manner.
Why not just bomb the Emperor? The Emperor was the only one in the country that had the power to tell the people the war is done. Show no resistance. They would listen to a living God (Emperor) not the wests idea of what a dead martyr would have wanted.