So my mom was born in 42. To this day if you say anything bad about Hirohito

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Jan 28, 2023
2:07:11pm

yellowboy Starter

So my mom was born in 42. To this day if you say anything bad about Hirohito

She loses her mind. She and all her friends that grew up in Japan and moved here in their 20s all place the blame on Tojo and say Hirohito was just an innocent pawn. I don’t know, but it’s interesting the perspective they have. I just normally stay quiet and let her do her thing.

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yellowboy

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Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan 1944-‘45

OU Cougar

1/28/23 12:43pm

Don't attack America.

wildlandfireguy

1/28/23 12:44pm

Yep. Literally paid back 1000 fold for Pearl Harbor

OU Cougar

1/28/23 12:46pm

Pearl Harbor was only one in a long line of atrocities committed by the Japanese

1/28/23 12:54pm

Agree that a philosophy that everyone else exists to serve your nation as slaves

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:00pm

Not just Pearl Harbor. They declared war on the United States, the first part of which was a sneak attack on Hawaii, but

mvtoro

1/28/23 1:02pm

You know they attacked our troops and allies throughout the Pacific on the same day, right?

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:14pm

Yeah. Just comparing our actual US homeland experience to theirs

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:16pm

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TrackCoug

1/28/23 12:55pm

Plus the Japanese were vicious. This goes both ways

TNT

1/28/23 1:02pm

They're in the minority. Japan is a very close ally and most Japanese love US

Schultz is back

1/28/23 1:06pm

The mutual respect between Americans and Japanese, generally, is an incredible

shoganai

1/28/23 1:13pm

Mostly due to how Tuman and MacArthur ran postwar Japan.

Orem58thBall

1/28/23 3:04pm

The Japanese would have burned America to the ground and enslaved everyone.

demon_llama

1/28/23 1:06pm

To be fair, there was a different kind of animosity between Japan and China

FabLabCougar

1/28/23 1:10pm

This is why us Americans have no margin for error

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:10pm

Be professional but have a plan to kill everyone in the room.

demon_llama

1/28/23 1:11pm

Actually, geopolitically we have immense margins of error (the built in

J. Walter Weatherman

1/28/23 1:19pm

Peace through superior firepower.

valcorger

1/28/23 2:48pm

China, Japan, and Korea have spent millennia conquering each other

Schultz is back

1/28/23 1:20pm

Forgave??? Do you know they actually ate their POWs in the Philippines?

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:20pm

All this is true. But I don't think it's the point of the OP. I believe he's

777

1/28/23 1:28pm

That random farmer was part of the 28MM strong civilian defense force

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:34pm

Meh...I don't think every civilian was a fault. Change the OP to the perspective

777

1/28/23 1:42pm

Have read extensively on WWII/Japan and never read of Tokyo being on "the list"

BlueInfidel

1/29/23 5:39am

My grandparents (WWII vets) were very untrusting of the Japanese after the war

stenso

1/28/23 1:52pm

My grandpa flew B-29s after Pearl. My other grandpa was very high up in the

yellowboy

1/28/23 1:58pm

Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.

Tmoney1969

1/28/23 1:59pm

So my mom was born in 42. To this day if you say anything bad about Hirohito

yellowboy

1/28/23 2:07pm

RE: Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.

wislim

1/28/23 3:51pm

Thanks...gonna have to add some books to my library!

Tmoney1969

1/28/23 4:22pm

My wife’s parents did and what you said is not true. Half were not homeless.

valleus

1/28/23 2:04pm

The loss kick-started their demographic death spiral

RevolutionDeathsquad

1/28/23 2:11pm

This is inaccurate. No historian would ever make that statement.

Schultz is back

1/28/23 4:56pm

RE: Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan

OriginalBlue

1/28/23 4:34pm

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