The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
There is no correct war
Nakanishi
As Professor Watanabe's research shows, even after 70 years since the end of World War II, there is a fact newly evident by carefully investigating the historical material.
That is why history is so interesting that it will not stop.
It's 'Why did the United States drop two atom bombs to Japan', if saying in relation to Japan, regarding the previous US-Japan War, questions that align with the circumstances that Japan was driven to Pearl Harbor attack.
At the time of May 1945, Grew, who served as vice-minister of state affairs, advises Truman that Japan should surrender soon if explicitly preserving the imperial preservation.
However, this proposal will be rejected due to ‘unexplored military reasons’.
What is the reason why it cannot be disclosed?
That is the atomic bomb.
It was the situation as indicated by the title of exertion 'Do not surrender Japan until the atomic bomb is dropped' (Soshisha bunko) by Mr. torii Tami of modern history historian, so it was too deep and big sin, human historical crime that the United States committed in World War II.
Watanabe
It feels sorry I wanted Mr. Torii to live a little longer.
As I wrote in the column of the July issue of this magazine, Churchill is discussing whether to use atomic bombs with military advisers in Truman at Potsdam, Germany (July 24, 1945).
At this time, Churchill said that ‘Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor without warning and killed your youth,’ he pressed Truman 's back hesitating to dumping without warning or notice of atomic bomb.
There are many experts who evaluate Churchill in Japan for some reason, it is no exaggeration to say that the war caused by Churchill in both the First and Second World War.
I think that it was a person like a sample of inconsistency between one's words and actions, it was the lowest politician in history.
Nakanishi
Personally, Churchill is an interesting person with many lovable characters, and I always evaluate it as a person's criticism.
However, Roosevelt is quite different.
However, both are cunning and viciousness as a power politician is exactly the world historical level, in that respect, I think that they were people of the same kind as Stalin and Hitler, apart from the details of what they each did specifically.
Indeed, throughout the whole war against Japan, that is from the Atlantic Charter to the Potsdam Declaration, until the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the philosophy such as 'Peace', 'Freedom', 'Civilization' or the like advocated by their Leadership Division, in fact, it was nothing more than wartime propaganda that was convenient to himself as a victorious country aiming to establish world hegemony.
Most of us has it truly seriously, after defeat Japanese who have built their own view of history, it can be said that it was too naive.
As I learned about the history of international politics, I came to the thesis that ‘every war is an imperialist war’.
Even today in the twentieth century, and today in the 21st century, many countries fighting hegemony do not hesitate to take a war to protect their own exclusive national interests and expand control over others.
Even in modern times, there is no war with so-called ‘correct warfare’, i.e. 100% ‘for self-defense’.
The post-war world order after the Second World War is formed by dividing and merging ‘territory’.
The territory to be distributed there is exactly ‘booty’ for victorious countries, as Putin says.
Obviously, I do not want to say that the world is only the logic of the jungle, nothing to point out a noble ideal is meaningless.
Rather, to preserve the original ideals and values of such humans, we need the awakened historical view that ‘all wars are invasive wars’.
With such cool‐headed seeing this history, for the first time in Japan, we can pursue peaceful diplomacy, we can build a penetrating national strategy.
In history recognition or to cure the serious maladjustment that Japan is falling in the real international society, it is more important than ever to have such a penetrating war view that 'There is no correct war'.