In addition to religion's granting of a Mandate of Heaven to the emperor, government programs served to silence any political opposition that might have arisen. The Imperial Rule Assistance Association, or IRAA, was responsible for civilian “domestic repression.” Surveillance of dissidents by the IRAA increased. The special higher police (thought police, Tokko) and military police (Kenpei) closely monitored religious sects, Koreans, and suspected leftists and pacifists (Home Front). Thanks to the government's total domination of Japanese thought, media, and culture, they had the ability to project any image of the war they wanted into the minds of the people through propaganda. They successfully fooled the Japanese people into believing that Japan was winning the war. Speaking of a captured Japanese man, Karl Compton, a scientist assigned to interview the soldier, said: "This young Japanese man told us that all his comrades believed that Japan was winning the war. To them, the losses of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were part of a grand strategy to draw American forces closer and closer to their homeland, until they could be attacked and completely wiped out (Compton ). » This shows that Japanese soldiers did not lack patriotism and pure devotion to their country. Even after significant losses of territory and personnel at the hands of the United States, the soldiers still believed that victory would be theirs. Additionally, because of their dedication to their country, Japanese soldiers believed that death was preferable to capture or surrender. A captured officer, when asked about the length of the war, said, "We would have continued fighting until all the Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated (Compton)", with the word " defeated” ... .. middle of paper ......o work on it. If they feared such controversy over whether the United States was making a nuclear weapon, then the controversy that had arisen over whether the United States had actually used a nuclear weapon must have been exponentially greater. This is why Truman gave a speech on nuclear weapons so soon after their use. He wanted the public to hear his side of the story first, instead of hearing about it initially from the media and newspapers, which might have attempted to further dramatize the situation. Due to the massive number of casualties from the atomic bomb, the deliberate attacks on defenseless civilians, and the fact that the United States government attempted to hide the true purpose of the Manhattan Project from its workers, it is easy to conclude that everything about the nuclear bomb has been immoral, cruel and unjust.Conclusion goes hereFeedback