Photographers that documented nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[guangong]

And what was the purpose of that act?

The embargo was in response to the invasion of China and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo. Japanese leadership considered its resources key for creation of a mighty military force to expand territory of the empire. Many Japanese Americans supported the embargo. After all, one reason they emigrated to USA and South America was not wanting to live under such a political system. Of course no group is ideologically homogeneous, and there were some sympathizers, especially among criminal class. Even some Americans supported Japanese colonization.For example, my library contains a book written by an elite member of California society, at the time head of California Institute of Technology, who toured Manchukuo and wholeheartedly supported Japanese militarists policies. By the way, this book is no longer listed as one of his accomplishments.
The revelation that many America and international firms are comfortable using Chinese slave labor today would seem to indicate that evil is forever with us. We even have an American politician whose family received over a billion dollars from China.

 

[bernard_L]

BTW, the US "Embargo Act of 1941," which is often given as a reason for Pearl Harbor, is rarely discussed.

Preliminary note: I'm not taking sides, just reminding historical facts.
That was less than one year before Pearl Harbor. Even less discussed is the context in the previous decades.

• In 1922, Albert Londres, reporter (google if you don't know him) was in China, then torn between warlords. His reports were published in instalments in Le Petit Parisien and can be found under the title La Chine en Folie (Chinese madness). Still in Paris, deciding what his next trip will be, he writes:
  La Chine, enjeu de la partie de canons qui se prépare entre le Japon et l'Amérique. At that time, the Moukhden warlord was a puppet of the Japanese, and the Beijing one a puppet of the Americans. And no, it was not rewritten in hindsight after Pearl Harbor: A.L. died in 1932, in the fire of the Georges-Philipar passenger ship.
  
• Going back a little further, Commodore Perry.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

I always think about how many people have been killed with conventional weapons. for the citizens of Japan did it matter it they were killed by bombs, bullets, fire bombing, or two nuclear bombs. Estimated number of Japanese killed in WWII is 2.5~3.1 million. I for one never quite understand the horror people feel about the two we dropped in Japan. It ended the war.

Because it let the genie out of the bottle. Once that was done he could not be put back in. That's my horror. Well that and compassion.

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