The United States was morally wrong to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WW2.

Autocracy: "government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch." http://dictionary.reference.com... Dictatorship: "a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator." http://dictionary.reference.com... This congruity between the English monarch and the Japanese emperor does not exist. One of the sources I cited in my previous argument actually displays the surviving notion of "divine right" as a relevant factor in analyzing the Japanese regime. I will state it plainly in this argument. The role of Emperors was indeed a symbolic one preceding the Boshin War (1868-1869). In the previous centuries the administration of Japan was primarily headed by the Shoguns, a line of military leaders who served the chief executive function in the Japanese political system. It was during this period that the Emperors performed the less essential role that you describe. However, after the Imperialist victory in 1869 the Shogunate was dissolved. Following was the Meiji Restoration, a period of industrialization and political centralization. The trends toward autocracy were briefly curtailed during the Taisho period, during which greater power was relegated to the oligarchical ruling classes. Even so, the rise of Hirohito marked the beginning of the Showa period, during which groups advocating democratization and leftism disintegrated; it was at this time that momentum for ultra-conservatism, ultra-nationalism, and fascism congealed in the creation of a militarist, imperial dictatorship. All this I relate for the demonstration of the unitary nature of Imperial Japan. This was an autocracy. There was no pluralism; Hirohito was the absolute authority in Japan in 1945. If he desired peace, none of his subordinates would be capable of stopping him. It is also worth noting that his motion for peace was actually unchallenged. This is, again, stated in my previous references. The Emperor and Japanese military leaders had both pressed for peace, under near-identical circumstances to the peace accepted in the treaty. Compounding this disgrace is the fact that Japanese diplomats had acted as "peace-feelers" as early as 1944. Your assertions regarding Japanese terms are nonfactual. Nowhere in Japanese deliberations was there a consensus on the allowance for a nuclear program, the pardoning of military officials, or the trial of Gen. MacArthur. Not only would it have been impossible for them to have deliberated over nuclear weapons on the basis of American arms proliferation (as the nuclear program was classified and unknown to the Japanese), but specific to the terms was the "Regulation of Japanese industry to halt production of any weapons and other tools of war." Suffice to say, this includes nuclear weaponry. While the release of POW's was included, this was in the context of a reciprocated prisoner exchange, and only constituted the release of specially designated Japanese POW's. Your other points do not appear in any documents I've seen in my research. The Japanese were, indeed, willing to surrender. Hirohito was willing, the military leaders were willing. The only party deeming surrender unacceptable at the time was the United States. Let it also be known that knowledge of Japanese deliberations for peace were not made publicly known until weeks after their surrender. In fact, this secrecy was ensured through government censorship of media outlets and wartime classification. American nuclear proliferation was morally objectionable beyond reasonable doubt. References (*=Repost of a previous citation) * https://mises.org... * http://www.doug-long.com... http://history.co.uk... https://en.wikipedia.org... (Refer to individual articles on periods) http://www.ihr.org...