The war was chiefly the Western game, Asians generally paid the price for their colonial masters, if not, suffered because the tide hit the region. Japan could be said to be the only Asian country to have gain. Apparently so, but not true, because her sufferings were undermined and the hard fought territories returned to their former owners. I would say that Japan suffered the most from the war-guilt, so much so that countless are still blaming her today. She suffered the same exhaustion and mental torment as the rest of Asia, but many in the world were blind to these, just because she was the aggressor. Just because she was the aggressor, she was assumed to be cold-blooded and unfeeling. The fact that she was the aggressor proved that she was capable, not cold-blooded and unfeeling. However, this capability was a threat to the West, and hence the atrocious Atomic Bombs were dropped to kill Japanese civilians. The sufferings during the war, together with the Atomic Bombs, marked World War II as the Asian Tragedy.
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Websites
A-Bomb WWW Museum
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
Bamboo Shoots
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bambshoo.html
GI – World War II Commemoration
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_11.html
The Greater East Asia War and the A-Bomb
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/C/City/History/03.html
Hiroshima: the White Man's Bomb
http://www.oocities.org/Pentagon/Quarters/2094/whitebomb.html
The Japanese Occupation:A Beginning
http://www.oocities.org/Athens/Troy/2700/main.html
Japanese War Crime
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/
Japanese War Crimes: Revisited
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea-j1.htm
The Thailand Collection - The Death Railway
http://members.tripod.com/~thailandcollection2/deathrailway.htm
What is the nuclear war?
http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/peace1e.html
Books
Asahi Shimbun
Senso (The Japanese Remember the Pacific War)
The Pacific Basin Institute, 1995
Beasley, W.G.
The Modern History of Japan
Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1982
Cluck, Carol & Granbard, Stephen R.
Showa: the Japan of Hirohito
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
Hall, D. G. E.
A History of South-east Asia
Hong Kong: Macmillian, 1981
Hiroshi Funasaka
Falling Blossoms
Times Book International, 1986
Jessy, Joginder Singh
History of South-east Asia (1824 – 1965)
Malaysia: Penerbitan Darulaman, 1985
Khoo, Gilbert & Lo, Dorothy
Asian Transformation
Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books, 1987
Mamoru Shinozaki
Syonan – My Story (The Japanese Occupation of Singapore)
Asia Pacific Press Pte Ltd, 1975
Reischauer, Edwin O. & Craig, Albert M.
Japan : Tradition and Transformation
George Allen and Unwin, 1985
Storry, Richard
A History of Modern Japan
Penguin Books Ltd, 1984
Wray, Harry & Conroy, Hilary
Japan Examined
The University of Hawaii Press, 1983