The least known fact on why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

[Dx-treme]

This is a very little known fact about the WWII tradgedy but the main generals that made the decisions actually got their education in America's universities.

Of course this is probarbly the 1915's-1940's. DO you really want to know how terribly they were treated by the anglo caucasian AMERICANS classmates ?

They SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS IN MAKING THE DECISION TO DESTROY HAWAII.

This is actually a researched done by My friend at University of Kansas for her graduate paper.

THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE IF ALL HUMANS ARE BLIND

 

[DAM]

not blind totally just color blind, actually this wolrd would be a better place if we all looked the same, no matter how ugly or how beautiful.


dam()

 

[Killbat]

I can't imagine how horrible life on Earth would be if everyone was the same. :|

 

[DragonKnight]

Then we'd have a harder time appreciating differences.

Personally, it'd be better if humans appreciate the myriad of differences (color, cultural, whatever...) we possess.

-Rich

 

[Dx-treme]

that is of course the ideal but look around the world today, heck even look around your perimeter. Do you seriously believe that it can be achieved ?

 

[Phreeky]

S*H*I*T comes in all hues...

 

[CyberSax]

I'm sure that was one of the reasons, but I doubt it was the sole reason. There was a significant millitary advantage to taking Hawaii you know.

Some of the pre-War Japanese hostility towards the U.S. was due to racist immigration policies, which essentially told the Japanese that they were inferior to Europeans. Can't blame them for being pissed off.

 

[Double Trouble]

I didn't realize that kind of stupid nonsense drivel is enough to get one a graduate degree from the U of Kansas.

 

[Mday]

did you also know that the bombing could've been prevented?

did you know what people are already blind, otherwise this world would already be a better place.

 

[Passions]

Did you know how Americans were treated in Japan? Its the same everywhere buddy.

 

[reitz]

How the hell is treatment at school a justification for a surprise attack on a sovereign country without a declaration of war? So what if they were treated badly? What about the treatment of Americans in some other coutries? I suppose that based on your reasoning, we can go ahead and launch a surprise attack on those countries.

That is pathetic that a respected university would take a graduate thesis like that seriously. PC makes me sick.

 

[dennilfloss]

Reitz,

The declaration of war only missed by a few hours because of a decoding mishap at the Japanese embassy. The war was supposed to be declared before the attack.

That is a historical fact.

Last Cup Of Sorrow (Faith No More)

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

To guys who said that we should all look the same.

Read a book called "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. It's about a society where everything is controlled. Most of the lower-class people are cloned. They are all born out of bottles. They only live for pleasure. They cannot feel anything but happiness. And if they are getting angry they take a pill of "soma", which basically gives them a high. The people of the society are conditioned since birth. The people of the society are discouraged to think.

The society's motto is "Community, Identity, Stability". They also believe that everyone belongs to everyone else. This means that monogamy is wrong and people who have sex with only one person is bad. They are encouraged to have sex withover they want. The children are conditioned to *play* with other children at a young age. Family is a bad thing there.

This book was written during the Great Depression. Sometime's it spooky as to how close some of the prophesies of the book are to today's real life. It's an interesting read about society and how what we have now is good. It basically says that if we have happiness, we have to give up freedom and knowledge.

 

[Tominator]

Dx-treme

I graduated High School in '72. I knew that 'Little Known Fact' at that time because I researched the causes of WWII myself, although my history teacher was tops.

Now, when you guys read a post by me and I say 'Another Victim of a Public Education,' you will know why I say that.

From memory here, but Admiral Yamamoto was educated in the US. He was the one who carried out the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He had a great respect for the US and was a brilliant leader. Duty came before anything else....

Tora Tora Tora is a great movie and is historically correct.

 

[JMaster]

yeah then all asian countries should do a suprise bomb attack on mexico and vice versa lolz...
LOL PHREEKY

 

[JoBoy]

The Japanese wanted to take over all of east Asia. By wiping out our Pacific fleet they figured they would receive little other major resistance. They never really thought that they could successfully invade the mainland US. Unfortunately for them, the US did not want to get involved in a war, even the one in Europe. If they had not attacked the US the world would be a much different place today. The A-bomb would not have been such a priority and the US would probably not be the superpower that it is today if had not rallied into WW2.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Actually Cybersax maybe right on this one, most western societies had immigration policies that were highly denigrating towards Asians (including Australia's). Actually Japan tried to get written into the Versailles treaty (they were allies of US during the great war) bills against racial discrimination. Which is a bit hypocritical as the Japanese are about the most racist people on the planet (I know that's a generalisation).

One of the reasons for Japan's success early on is that they were considered so inferior ("the're all short sighted so they can't fly for peanuts", "all their products are poor copies of western products", yet the Zero out performed all western fighters at the beginning of the war, except the Supermarine Spitfire which was only used in Asia towards the finally half of the war, by which time the Zero was out classed) that they were expected to be outclassed by Western superiority, this arrogance was one of the main causes to the fall of Singapore.

But the fact remains that the attack on Pearl Harbour had nought to do with how Japanese students were treated in the US (Korean students were treated worse in Japan) & was mainly to do with the Western embargo on fuel supplies to Japan, which was starting to effect their campagns in China. Because of this the Japanese high command decided it had to take the oil fields in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) by force, which meant they had to nuetralise the British in Malaya & the Americans in the Philipines, so their rear was protected in their forethcoming invasion of the Netherlands East Indies.