The ethics of Hiroshima

[Durka]

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Cheers for that. Interesting. Japanese are a very proud people, I guess their view internally of certain historic events are different to the Western view.

It would have been interesting to ask her view on the war in the Pacific and how Japan tried to invade Australia and see what justification she had, or how their best jungle troops were stopped in Kokoda by a bunch of barely trained Militia, not even real Army.

My understanding is that the current belief, based Japanese war documents, is that Japan did not intend to invade Australia - too big, too sparse, too hard to hold onto etc.

[stui magpie]

@think positive thanks for that, the tour guide sounds like a right dill. I've never done one of those guided tour things, I like to do stuff when I want to do it.

@Durka OK, I'll buy that, but WTF were they doing then? They bombed Darwin and were sending troops Island hopping to Australia, it sure as hell looked like they were planning to invade.