Japan-US War (la guerre américano-japonaise)
Japan was hit by an M9.0 earthquake and 15-meter high tsunamis along northeast coast lines of Honshu Island in March. Then, in the past week, a big typhoon destroyed many local communities in the Kii Peninsula of west Japan, taking scores of lives.
The U.S. also suffered a rare earthquake around Washington DC, big floods along the Mississippi River, and then Hurricane Irene on the East Coast.
It looks like that the God is telling us that He is fair to both the countries even in the worst context. It does especially so, since the Second Coming of Christ must have already started around 2010 (= 1260 + 750 ). (Refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-nothing-for-your-journey.html)
SECTION I: The Century of Wars
It is true that it was not so easy for the Empire of Japan to surrender to the United States in August 1945 before the Empire knew that the U.S. had already developed atomic bombs and used them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement calling for the Surrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman,United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction."...
The only mention of "unconditional surrender" came at the end of the declaration:
"We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction." Contrary to what had been intended at its conception, the declaration made no mention of the Emperor at all. Allied intentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether Hirohito was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or even a war criminal, or alternatively whether the Emperor might potentially become part of a "peacefully inclined and responsible government" were thus left unstated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration
The key point of discussions among the elite of the Empire of Japan in the summer of 1945 was whether the Emperor could be protected and free from possible punishment by the U.S. on the Imperial Army and Navy or the Imperial government. "Will America try to abolish the imperial family if we surrender?" is the most important question for generals and politicians of the Empire who were forced to decide surrender or battles on Japanese proper (mainland Japan).
However, the fact that America had developed and used atomic bombs as well as some profound implications in the Potsdam Declaration led to decision of unconditional surrender of the Imperial military. Most of the then Japanese leaders and elite thought that the Potsdam Declaration implied that the imperial family would be allowed to continue to preside in the nation of Japan. Accordingly, Showa Emperor himself announced to the nation through radio broadcasting that the Empire would surrender on August 15, 1945.
Yet, from the beginning there was a question as to whether or not President Roosevelt thought that the Empire of Japan would never venture into war with the United States no matter how much the U.S. took a tough stance against the Empire having been engaged in war in the Chinese continent for some years. As the Empire did not withdraw its troops from China, the U.S. government froze Japanese assets in America and stopped export of crude oil to Japan. The U.S. was taking a hostile policy to the Empire while the Empire tried to maintain friendly relationship with the U.S.
Did Roosevelt really think that he had to make the Empire start war with America, since the U.S. needed to join the U.K. in the war against Nazi Germany, while Nazi Germany forged a military alliance with the Empire of Japan, though the German Government had provided military support for China in 1930's? The elite of the Empire of Japan knew that America's GDP was ten times and more larger than the Empire's; there was no chance for the Empire to win a possible war against the U.S. But, the Roosevelt Administration increased economic and political pressure on Japan through 1940 and 1941 till the Pearl Harbor Attack.
It is said that there were some leaders in the U.S. at the time who did not think that the Empire of Japan would militarily challenge the U.S., since the gap in industrial power between the two countries was so large at the time. If President Roosevelt had shared the same view with such an American elite, how would the Roosevelt Administration have joined the U.K. for the war against Hitler? Only if the Empire of Japan had started war against the U.S., the U.S. could declare war against the Empire's ally Germany in addition to the Empire of Japan.
At the time, the American public was very reluctant to join the U.K. in the war against Nazi Germany. Hitler was also careful not to invite the U.S. into the European theater of WWII. But, the English, Judaists and Russians as well as Chinese were desperately hoping for American's engagement in wars against Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. So, spies in Washington DC were deeply penetrating into the U.S. Government. Under their influence, it is apparent that some key officials in the Roosevelt Administration got determined to drive the Empire of Japan into the corner. If the Empire had not been able to import crude oil from the U.S., it would take by force oil fields in Indonesia having been colonized by the Netherlands; then inevitably a war would start for the Empire with the Netherlands, the U.K. and eventually the U.S. So, the English, Judaists and Russian communists as well as the Chinese elite all wanted the U.S. to drive the Empire of Japan into the corner and finally into war, even months before Pearl Harbor.
But, was it so easy and safe to manipulate the Empire of Japan in 1941 based on the assumption that the U.K. and the U.S. would be able to crush the Imperial troops, fleets, and air squadrons in months so easily?
(to be continued...)
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I happened to watch a Japanese cable TV program of a dialogue between Mr. Susumu Nishibe, an ex-professor of the University of Tokyo, and Mr. Makoto Sataka, a leftist critic.
Mr. Nishibe said, "Though I am older than the Beatles generation, I am interested in that three of the four Beatles are originally from Ireland. It is a big success story for them to be rewarded a British decoration, since Ireland was once colonized by the U.K."
So, their songs might sound as if based on Catholic passion.
Anyway, Mr. Nishibe does not respect European and American rich men, as he is now very conservative and patriotic, though he was once an anti-Japan-U.S. security alliance (namely anti-establishment) student around 1960. No matter how intellectual a Japanese might be, he could be patriotic and anti-European/American if he does not fully study Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet, an intellectual elite like Mr. Nishibe is a minority in the Japanese society.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZdi2z7lHM&feature=related)
Luk 9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
Luk 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
Luk 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.