Newly Found Diary Says No to Japanese Surrender
Thursday August 14, 2008
Twenty pages of General Hideki Tojo's diary, covering the two weeks after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, were recently released by the Japanese National Archives and published in the Nikkei newspaper. General Tojo, the prime minister of Japan for most of World War II, emphatically states in his diary that he was against the Japanese surrender after the atomic bombings. Tojo considered the surrender humiliating and believed that the Japanese leaders were "frightened" by the atomic bombs. After the war, Tojo was tried for war crimes by the Allies and sentenced to death in 1948. For more about Tojo's diary, read the Associated Press article.
Comments
If your trained response to surrender is suicide,then it would appear little room is left for compromise.One doubts the bombs would have been dropped if rational men were in charge of the Japanese government. On the other hand, Hitler proved he expected everyone to die for him,and he was quite mad.
Since WW II many leaders have expected other men to take the blame for their stupidity.
We have numerous examples of this in our own history.These men and women may also deem it worthwhile for someone else to die for a religious or political faction they support.