The End of Imperial Japan & Lessons for Ukraine | Dr. Richard Overy
Today I’m talking to Dr. Richard Overy, a Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter and a historian of the Second World War. Professor Overy wrote many books and just recently published the great work “Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan” in which he discusses not only the atomic bomb, but the larger context of arial bombings, the military situation in 1945, and the political process that led to the Tenno’s capitulation to the US forces—which ended World War II.The process of surrender is what we want to discuss today.
Links:
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan: https://www.amazon.com/Rain-Ruin-Tokyo-Hiroshima-Surrender/dp/1324105305
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:03 - Motivation for the book
00:01:49 - Importance of the bombing campaigns
00:03:16 - The US rationale for systematic bombings in Asia
00:05:54 - Firebombings and psychological warfare
00:07:30 - Japanese expectations of aerial bombings
00:10:29 - Who in Japan knew about the country's vulnerabilities?
00:13:50 - The political process of surrender
00:20:41 - Was Hiroshima a convenient excuse for surrender?
00:24:59 - The success of the Japanese surrender process
00:29:30 - Did the Soviet invasion make surrender inevitable?
00:31:00 - Lessons from Japan's surrender for modern conflicts
00:36:14 - What was the key factor in Japan's unified decision to surrender?
00:47:17 - Outro Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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