While Hasegawa acknowledges that while the “Hiroshima bombing did not significantly change Japan’s policy, though it did inject a sense of urgency into the peace party’s initiative to end the war.” Though the use of bombs did hurt Japan, they still had the help provided from the Moscow mediation and even began the use of Kamikaze attacks. The Kamikaze attacks demonstrated that the “Japanese hard-liners” were willing to sacrifice themselves and take whatever means necessary to harm the enemy and retain their dictatorship regime. Hasegawa uses these facts to provide realistic outcomes and demonstrate that as long as Japan had leverage and the ability to keep their emperor they were going to continue with the war by whatever means
While Hasegawa acknowledges that while the “Hiroshima bombing did not significantly change Japan’s policy, though it did inject a sense of urgency into the peace party’s initiative to end the war.” Though the use of bombs did hurt Japan, they still had the help provided from the Moscow mediation and even began the use of Kamikaze attacks. The Kamikaze attacks demonstrated that the “Japanese hard-liners” were willing to sacrifice themselves and take whatever means necessary to harm the enemy and retain their dictatorship regime. Hasegawa uses these facts to provide realistic outcomes and demonstrate that as long as Japan had leverage and the ability to keep their emperor they were going to continue with the war by whatever means