Japan's Longest Day
by Pacific War Research Society · first published 1972
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Read "Japan's Longest Day" (the book, not the movie) [1] which is a serious attempt to reconstruct in detail the events leading up to the decision to surrender. Nobody was really in charge. The civilian government didn't control…
on “Emperor Akihito of Japan is a published marine biologist” ↗Read "Japan's Longest Day", by Kazutoshi Hando and the Pacific War Research Society, which goes into great detail about how the decision to surrender was made. Many of the key players were still alive when this was written in…
on “A reporter's journey into how the U.S. funded the bomb” ↗Recommended reading: "Japan's Longest Day", the nonfiction book, not the movie or novel (Review: http://www.warbirdforum.com/end.htm). This was written in the 1980s by a group of Japanese historians who interviewed almost everyone still living…
on “Why did Japan surrender? (2011)” ↗This is an old argument. Read "Japan's Longest Day", from 1965, which is a detailed reconstruction of what went on before the Japanese surrender, from interviews with some of the people involved. Nobody was in overall charge. The Army barely spoke to…
on “Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)” ↗…over and over. It's just not supported by historical evidence, even by Japanese historians interviewing surviving Japanese officials. Somebody else has recommended in this thread but I will as well: "Japan's Longest Day" makes for fascinating reading. The reality is that there was a peace faction in the Japanese government who did want to surrender but the ultranationalistic Japanese military was quite firmly in control…
on “Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)” ↗Kazutoshi Hando, The Pacific War Research Society, Japan's Longest Day (Tokyo: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1968), pp. 11-53. https://web.archive.org/web/20110225124451/http://www.mtholy...
on “Hiroshima (1946)” ↗For anyone who wants to understand this debate better, the popular and academic Japanese record goes under the title “Japan’s Longest Day”. There’s a minute-by-minute historical analysis[1], a 1967 film[2] (starring Toshiro Mifune! Gotta find this one…), a 2015 remake[3] of the 1967 film, and apparently a forthcoming graphic novel[4].…
on “The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem” ↗How Japan made the decision to surrender is well covered in the book "Japan's Longest Day", originally published in 1973. Many of the major players were interviewed. There's a reasonably accurate movie version worth watching, if you're interested in this. It's a very strange story of decision-making…
on “The Third Atomic Bomb” ↗