The reason I brought Japan's role in WWII is because you have brought up the US use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki many times, in what seems like dozens of posts, although I am not going to go back and count how many times you've used that fact. Maybe you can do that.
You never bring up the fact that Japan started WWII by invading China (1937) from Manchuria which they invaded in 1931 and occupied, then Russia in 1939 through Mongolia, then simultaneously attacked the US at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines (American) Wake Island (American), Thailand, Malaya (British), Hong Kong (British), Dutch East Indies (now called Indonesia), and then kept going.
Total deaths in WWII - China, 10 million, French Indo China, 1 million, Burma 60,000, India 1.5 million, Indonesia, 4 million, Malaya, 100,000, Korea 60,000, Philippines 150,000, Singapore 50,000, Thailand 5,600, Pacific Islands, 57,000, victims of Japanese war crimes, 5.4 million.
Japan itself lost 2.7 million.
Of those, killed as a result of Little Boy in Hiroshima, 80,000 directly killed, 60,000 later from injuries and radiation poisoning.
Killed as a result of Fat Man in Nagasaki, between 70,000 and 80,000 total.
So, total deaths as a result of America's use of nuclear weapons in Japan, about 200,000.
Total deaths as a result of Japan's starting the war, over 20 million Asians, not even counting Americans, Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, and Canadians. |
