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JAPAN'S STRATEGIC DILEMMA, 1945
Surrender and Survival
by Michael A. Barnhart
 
Play this game recently? | Should Japan surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, requiring fundamental changes to its government and perhaps more, or insist on other arrangements to end the war? The game is set in August 1945. Japan has seen its cities fire-bombed for a year, and Hiroshima has just been incinerated by an atomic bomb. Players take the roles of top army, navy and civilian leaders to decide on a reply to the Allies' "Potsdam Declaration." Should they accept, even if it results in the end of their institutions and fundamental change in Japan? Or should they demand compromise, or even fight on? |
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Michael A. Barnhart
Michael A. Barnhart is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of History at Stony Brook University, who has taught there for forty years. For over twenty years, Michael has used simulations as teaching tools. He has also written a book about using simulations entitled "Can You Beat Churchill?" along with other, more traditional academic publications such as "Japan Prepares for Total War."
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