• frezik@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    There’s a lot more to it than that. Just for starters, there was a short lived coup in the military to try to keep it going. Tons going on in those last few days of the war on the Japanese side, and even if you had perfect knowledge of everything, it wasn’t obvious that they would surrender.

    • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I could never claim to summarise even five minutes of WWII with a couple of sentences, but my point is that it’s hardly fair to characterise Japan as “ain’t heard no bell”