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By Aamir Suhail
The Japanese government was the first to condemn the American's of their faceless acts and to say that they were not at all necessary and only showed barbarism and cruelty on their side. Overlooking what their government had done during the war, Japan said that these acts were totally unnecessary and that these bombing would not change Japans physical state as it was already defeated. They said it was only a matter of time before the Japanese government agreed to unconditional surrender and that using nuclear weapons over an already distrought and disfunctional country was totally careless and neglegent to the innocent citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan had many reason of why it believed the United State's bombing over their cities was entirely inconsiderate.
One of the many reasons was that because of the war going on against Germany, the US didn't have many troops to fight against Japanese forces. However, as the war drew to an end, the war with Japan became stronger. And with the surrender of Germany in May of 1945, the United States were able to concentrate and focus their troops and military personel towards the fight with the Japs. This totally outnumbered the Japanese defense and the government believed that it would only have taken a little more time before they surrendered. Another reason for Japan's defense was their relations with other countries. It can simply be summed up as 'not very good'. As Japan was being bombarded from the sky , and Naval blockade was strangling it's ability to import oil and other vital materials and it's ability to produce war materials. This was a point of argument because Japan said that it was basically harmless and could not produce anything that could cause much destruction. They also said that most of their torpedo/bomb production plants and facilities had been destroyed in the long-military campaign before the nuclear attacks. And with the bombing came another blow. Not only were the better part of both cities completely useless, but on the day of the second Atomic bomb (August 9th) Russia also declared war against Japan. This was a blow to the Japanese government's peace efforts. The Russians had been the only major nation with which Japan still had a neutrality pact, and, as such, had been Japan's main hope of negotiating a peace with something better than unconditional surrender terms. Russia had been Japan's last hope of help in World War II and when it declared war against Japan, Japan was isolated. With major air and sea blockades, and the United States with Russia on their side, Japan was simply defeated, in a military sense but it still remained for that to be translated into surrender.
Another reason why the Japanese government believed the atomic bombing were truely heartless was because the United States government had the two attacks planned out way before they actually happened. The Japanese say that America did not give them any chance to surrender and that they didn't wait to see whether the first Atomic bombing would bring surrender from the Japanese government but went ahead, for absolutely no reason at all, with the second bombing. Critics say that America was not trying to bring surrender from the nuclear attacks but it was just their way of getting revenge and getting back at the Japanese for Pearl Harbour and all their cruelty with prisoners of war.
The last and final reason Japan thought the bombings were unnecessary was because of the previous invasions that had taken place on nearby islands. The Japanese say that the invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa completely blocked them. The Americans were in very close range to strike from the air and on land and that Japan had realised that and was considering agreeing to the unconditional surrender. *****Furthermore, even after the nuclear attacks, the only reason Japan ended up surrendering was because of a demand by the emperor of Japan (who was Hirohito). The Japanese thought of their emperor as a god and obeyed his every command. The thought of surrender was so terrible to the Japanese leader that the whole Japanese high command commited Hara-Kiri a day after signing the surrender papers.