... Tradition in Japan. First, the Emperor didn't not intervene in political affairs as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty ... bomb adopted the ethical standards common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. Apart from the thousands of Japanese lives that were taken, the bomb also fell on home, killing approximately 23 or more Am...

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... the day that went down in infamy". Hiroshima Diary, written by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, is a journal that records many experiences of the Japanese in Hiroshima on the day of and the days immediately following the bombing. The diary is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving, as Hachiya ... possibly caused by my Americanized identity. A different type of personal embarrassment was imposed upon me when I read some of the reactions of the Japanese to American troops in the days following the bombing. Hachiya, after meeting with troops at his hospital, relates in his diary how ...

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... suffer trying to launch this bomb and making sure it lands in the correct place. The Japanese were weak and had no more supplies to fight for themselves, but they would not give up due to this. The Japanese thought that they could win this war and keep their land; they did not expect ... the United States to drop an atomic bomb on their civilians and kill many who did nothing wrong. The Japanese were about to give up and surrender to the Americans, but they still wanted to ... fight which was no other fault but theirs; if the Japanese surrendered earlier, the atomic bomb would not of be...

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... during the war. This bomber, however, is very special because it was the bomber that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and with that single act, caused the Japanese to surrender, "avenged" Pearl Harbour and pushed the war to an end. Heralded as a harbinger of peace by some and a symbol of reckless destruction by others, the Enola Gay meant ... shed tears of relief and realization because they suddenly had fututes and had no longer to deal with the anxiety and carnage of being on the front lines. To the Japanese, it represents one of the single most defining moments in t...

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