During World War II, the Japanese government was deeply guilty. Japan established a plan to invade Asia from the very beginning, and they attacked step by step, leaving the people of The Asian countries in a deep and fiery situation. Especially in China, the Fourteen-Year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression of the Chinese Nation has appeared before our eyes one after another. Cruelty, bloodshed, killing, all the time on China's territory.
However, our Chinese nation, with its strong cohesion and the great spirit of loving the motherland, has advanced and resisted step by step, driving the Japanese invaders who invaded us out of our territory.
Every patriotic Chinese compatriot is using their own strength to protect our country, and therefore in the battlefield of World War II, the Chinese nation contained most of Japan's troops, and China has become one of the important battlefields in the world against fascism.
With Hitler's suicide in the basement, the European battlefield of World War II was over, and the victory of the world anti-fascist war was in sight, but the Japanese government was not dead- However, the successive defeats of japanese forces in the Asian and Pacific theaters showed that it was impossible to make a comeback.
(Japanese forces in World War II)
At this time, our allies, the United States, Britain and China, jointly issued the famous Potsdam Proclamation. This proclamation hopes that the Japanese Government will surrender as soon as possible and reduce the casualties of the invaded countries and their own personnel. But some of the Japanese top brass still wanted to find loopholes in this announcement, and they found that there was no Soviet Union in these three countries, and Japan wanted to listen to the Soviet Union's opinion in order to delay time.
The Prime Minister of Japan at the time was the newly appointed Kantaro Suzuki, who delivered an extremely ambiguous speech. Although it did not reject the Potsdam Proclamation, it also maintained a dismissive attitude and expressed its desire to listen to the attitude of the Soviet side, which meant that the Japanese government said that it would not comply with the announcement for the time being.
Because the speech was extremely ambiguous, it was very difficult for the translation of the official Japanese news agency at that time, and the translators believed that Suzuki Kantaro "completely ignored" the announcement, they translated Suzuki Kantaro's speech into English, and when the announcement reached the United States and Britain, the American and British translators translated "complete neglect" into "rejection", which was very contrary to Suzuki Kantaro's statement at that time.
In this way, the anti-fascist Allies believed that the Attitude of the Japanese Government was very tough, and they had no intention of surrendering at all. So more than ten days after Suzuki's speech, two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were instantly reduced to ashes. According to published figures, there were more than 200,000 casualties.
(Scene of Japan after the atomic bombing)
President Harry S. Truman once said that if Japan had not rejected the Potsdam Proclamation, he would never have ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, but at this time, Suzuki Kantaro believed that he did not reject the announcement at that time, but just wanted to hear the Soviet Answer.
In this way, due to a very small translation error, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed, and Japan became the only country in the world to be dropped atomic bombs.
Kantaro Suzuki's ambiguous speech, Japan's aggression against other countries, the cultural barriers and gaps between the two countries, led to the dropping of atomic bombs, perhaps, this is the punishment of Heaven for Japan.