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Old 06-23-2010, 04:51 AM
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Default Re: Military Necessity and the Atomic Bombs

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So Vork seems to believe. However, referring to the initiative for peace, Vork explicitly says that “only the Emperor suported this initiative”. Maybe I just misunderstand the structure of the Japanese government at the time, but wasn’t the Emperor, um, the supreme god of the Japanese people? If that’s the case, then what anyone else supported was kind of irrelevant.
kael is right, it was really an oligarchy and more to the point it was something of a military dictatorship with the emperor as figurehead.
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