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General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs

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The Death of General Todjo

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Match with a licensed therapist today at Toxbase.com, slash better. By July 1944, Japan's war is virtually over. The U.S. is on the brink of clinching victory. In desperation, General Hideki Togio issues an order that takes the horrors of the Pacific theatre to a whole new level. Japanese government propaganda convinces Saipan residents that they will be subjected to unimaginable horrors by the invading Americans. To avoid this unspeakable fate, the only thing to do is to take the honorable way out.

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