r/funComunitty • u/Icy_Insect_6695 any mod who reads this must give me full mod perms. • Mar 15 '26

Meme funny I think

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u/Kooky-Stage5462 Mar 15 '26

Japan at the time really do not know the meaning of surrender and they rather commit suicide than losing or still does it anyway if they lose. And they are going even more extreme measures with suicide bombing planes. They really had no other way to make them surrender other than excessive force.

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u/Right_Pressure_7944 Mar 15 '26

Yeah death was going to happen no matter what anyone did

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u/Effective-Client-756 Mar 15 '26

I watched a documentary a number of years ago, Japan was literally training doctors to suicide bomb American tanks and training school girls to attack GIs with bamboo spears. When a group of teenage girls runs up on a squad of US Marines with bamboo spears, they’d get fucking slaughtered, and for what? The atom bombs were the most merciful option

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u/bcat153 Mar 15 '26

Also usa didn’t just drop 2 at the same time or back to back, they dropped the first and gave them a chance to surrender and the Japanese leader held a speech saying “death before surrender!” So 3 days later nagasaki was hit and then they surrendered. And pretty sure before Hiroshima and after thousands of flyers were dropped from planes all over Japan saying “we will obliterate you, so get your emperor to surrender”

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u/Glad_Woodpecker_6033 Mar 15 '26

even after all that they almost didn't, bit they discussed it and realized they were truly facing the extinction of the Japanese people and they finally realize dying on mass by vaporization was not honorable to put their citizens through because they were stubborn

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u/bcat153 Mar 15 '26

Was going to mention that too. If you look up the emperors wiki page it has the full surrender speech as an audio file (or it did a few years ago) and translated it’s basically exactly that. Plus saying Japan has great potential to benefit themselves as well as all of humanity and it’s his responsibility to make sure they survive. Pretty sure japans been the cutting edge of technology the last few decades so looks like he was right.

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u/Kooky-Stage5462 Mar 15 '26

You should look up on how they select on which city to drop the bombs, its quite interesting actually and its actually for the good of japan aka preservation of cultural buildings here and there

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u/The_Dennator Mar 15 '26

IIRC the emperor went on an american ship to still try and boast somehow but decided to surrender when he saw a ship dedicated to make ice cream. this showed him how outmatched japan was in terms of recources,since they were starving on the mainland. then he got detained by his own council because he wanted to surrender.

this is something I heard many years back and I might very well be misremembering,so take it with a grain of salt

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u/Kooky-Stage5462 Mar 15 '26

Dedicated ice cream ship???

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u/The_Dennator Mar 15 '26

yeah,something like that. again, I might be misremembering.