ABSTRACT
Japan had committed atrocities in China (the Nanjing massacre and Unit 731) and in Korea (comfort women), far beyond anything defined as regular warfare. The United States won in Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The United Kingdom became a shadow of itself, France played an ambiguous role, China was a house divided against itself. The Soviet Union, badly wounded, emerged proudly as victor in Eastern Europe. For a USA bent on controlling Eurasia and even deliberately provoking a Japanese attack, Pearl Harbor confirmed Eurasia as a source of trouble. Verticality is a form of violence. It comes as two different styles of behaviour for people high up, people low down. Both are antithetical to peace. The big problem, referring to Japanese reality, is that the outcome of a conflict so often is written in advance of their social grammar.
