Ironically, the Pearl Harbor attack that got the US into the war was carried out by someone who thought it was a terrible idea. Isoroku Yamamoto, who actually lived in the US for sometime and went to Harvard knew that the US would never take kindly to such an attack and had predicted that Japan could not win a war against the US. Unfortunately, he was a Navy guy and one of the more reasonable moderates who actually openly criticized a lot of Japan's war aggressions. The people in government unfortunately, were those who were either in the Army or loyal to the Army and it was the Army who dictated Japan's wartime policies. It is no wonder that most of Japan's war crimes were carried out by those and in Army and not so much the Navy.
I think if Japan had more people like Yamamoto involved in government policy making, perhaps those atom bomb attacks may not have ever happened.
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