Researching the War

Today in class, we spent time researching questions we had about World War Two. While I was going through the detailed chronology of World War Two, I came to the conclusion that Japan's leaders must have been insane. I had already known about the Kamikazes and their lunacy, but two other tidbits of Information struck me as on par with their craziness. First, I was shocked by the resilience of the Japanese government. The time line shows that Japan was nuked twice, and had the Soviet Union Declare war on them before they finally surrendered. Even after being blitzkrieg-ed by everything the air force had to offer, Japan still asked for a conditional surrender (four days later they unconditionally surrendered). The fact that they didn't immediately surrender after being NUKED shows that their government was either stupid or extremely resilient; either way it is still an interesting that Japan took so long to accept defeat. Another thing that struck me as bizarre was Japan asking there citizens to commit suicide rather than get killed or turn themselves in to the Americans. It describes that around a thousand Japanese citizens either killed themselves or were killed by Japanese soldiers.
Overall, in our research today in class I found exactly how extreme and ridiculous Japan's leadership was during Word War Two. Kamikaze fighter pilots, demanding suicide from their citizens, and the unwillingness to surrender even after it was clear that there was no way to achieve victory shows their true colors.