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Anonymous
>> Anonymous
koreans have a paranoid delusion XD
>> Anonymous
shoop'd.

see "Japanese Empire"

on a tangent, those fuckers got off too easy after WWII. OH BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW. ATOM BOMB.

The Germans had to deal with a good portion of their populaiton dead, most of the country in ruins, and worse off, partitioned by the allied forces that eventually led to the cold war.
>> Anonymous
/b/
>> Anonymous
>>227010
The Americans did decimate the Japanese cities with firebombs, and the Japanese sort of screwed themselves over by building most of their buildings out of wood and paper.

Though at least they took care of themselves later on in the 50's and didn't need us for much. Plus, the Soviets didn't get to them in time. I do wonder, though, how Japan would have looked like under a Soviet Regime.

Meh, I babble, and this is /c/, so Sage.
>> Anonymous
>>227010

Japan had millions dead, an obliterated infrastructure (their government was left standing so the surrender could be issued and the railroads had somehow been kept running, but everything else was gone) and to make matters worse, all the Japanese who had emigrated to around their empire over the previous 40 years were sent *back* to Japan, putting even more strain on an already strained country. Food shortages ran rampant until the early 1950s (the governments rationing was so severe that a judge who utterly refused to eat any black market food died of starvation). Thousands of homeless lived around Ueno station in Tokyo for years after the war (think the opening scene of Grave of the Fireflies). Post WW2 Japan had it bad.

>>227013

That was how Japan traditionally built their buildings. Most of Japan was still rural and/or traditional in the 1940s. Stone building was unusual (and unheard of before permanent castles were built in their middle ages) and more modern buildings were well, new and not common yet (though not much survives concentrated firebombing anyhow, just ask Dresden). Only a handfull of cities escaped bombing (basically, those on the nuclear shortlist that weren't nuked and Kyoto which was spared for cultural reasons).
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Mmm, history lessons. But why here? Take it to Wikipedia. GTFO