U.S wipes out Japanese people

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What would it take for the U.S. during or post world war 2 to decide to wipe out all japanese people. What would be the impact on the coming Cold War and civil rights movement if the U.S. did wipe out most of the Japanese

13% of U.S population wanted to wipe out the Japanese during world war 2
 
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shiftygiant

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Err, what? First question: Why are you so, you know, calm about this idea, Second: Why would America do this? Third: seriously, wtf
 
Have Truman opt for the blockade instead of the nukes or sabotage the nukes, and have Truman forced to use the blockade. Anyways longer blockade = major depopulation of Japan. If it's bad enough and if Truman is crazy enough, maybe he can colonize the islands:p.
 
"Yeah, lets fight those genociding Krauts and than genocide the Japs!"

Hmm, yeah! Makes sense! Nope, only way to achieve this is to have a nasty regime like the Nazis in power.
 

shiftygiant

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Okay Noscoper, I want you to be very careful with how you handle all this, because this is teetering on the verge of a tasteless conversation about a rather implausible event or a support for Genocide.
 
Okay Noscoper, I want you to be very careful with how you handle all this, because this is teetering on the verge of a tasteless conversation about a rather implausible event or a support for Genocide.

Ok if it goes south I will pm a mod
 
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I don't see what's so wrong about this. The level of anti-Japanese sentiment in the US and Canada around WWII was frightening and disgusting. A discussion about the impact of things going even worse seems valid to me.:confused:
 
"Yeah, lets fight those genociding Krauts and than genocide the Japs!"

Hmm, yeah! Makes sense! Nope, only way to achieve this is to have a nasty regime like the Nazis in power.

Well most white people during this era considered non whites to be barely people so
 
They couldn't wipe them all out, but most might be possible. The US could accidentally kill the Emperor in a bombing raid over Tokyo. Japan now will never surrender to the very end. America has to atom bomb virtually every Japanese city in the home islands to cause a surrender. The fall out wipes out most of the Japanese population. Huge swathes of the home islands are completely uninhabitable for decades.
 
They couldn't wipe them all out, but most might be possible. The US could accidentally kill the Emperor in a bombing raid over Tokyo. Japan now will never surrender to the very end. America has to atom bomb virtually every Japanese city in the home islands to cause a surrender. The fall out wipes out most of the Japanese population. Huge swathes of the home islands are completely uninhabitable for decades.

At a certain point I think they'd just say "Forget it" and blockade the islands till the radio traffic stops.
 
Why does this need to be closed? It's not like he's saying "wouldn't it be awesome if we had wiped out the Japs? How would we have gone about it?".
He's just asking how it could have been done (maybe the US had snapped or the Japanese refused to surrender after the bombs and the US refused to sacrifice so many on an invasion), and the effects of such an act
 
The only way I could see this happening is if two things are in place first; the Japanese develop a highly effective air defense network for the Home Islands (this would require them to cut their losses very early and reposition for defense only), and they deploy a super-weapon which damages civilians in the USA without halting the advances in the Pacific (this requires good luck in the biological warfare department). They can't project power or resupply their forces in China (possibly they can't evacuate them), and they can't be bombarded with conventional weapons either.

Now you need a 'The Big One' to take down Japan in one stroke. Instead of two Bombs in 45, Japan takes fifty (out of a hundred) in 47. If the establishment survives, they do not give a surrender, and so local officers organize guerrilla campaigns to resist the occupation (massed forces get Bombed). With a lot of bad blood on every side, the occupation is not going to be pleasant, and it's not going to end.

By 2015, Japan is still majority Japanese (though almost everyone has at least one Nikkei grandparent), but they are majority English speaking, and with a sizable and privileged American minority.

It's not very likely, but I'd say that's the way it would happen.
 
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