did america try to paint mount fuji red?

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Did america try to paint mount fuji red with the purpose of lowering japans fighting spirit during the war?

And for those of you who are wondering, i just got the second season of axis powers hetalia and although a lot of its facts are true, i googled it and couldn't find anything, although i wouldn't put it past our government to do something stupid like paint mt fuji red. -.-'

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True (at least I found a couple source xD). Americans thought of painting mount Fuji red, but they thought of how much paint and oil it would require and how much money this was going to take and thought better of it. It was a pretty good plan to attack Japan's morales though. xD

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Red Mt Fuji

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Did america try to paint mount fuji red with the purpose of lowering japans fighting spirit during the war?

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No they never tried it. The story changes depending on who is telling the story. There is no hard evidence to prove it that I can find. One story goes (and I find this to be the most logical (sorta)). The idea was thought of dropping red paint on Mt. Fuji as a form of psychological warfare, however the idea was quickly dismissed because of the pure impracticality of doing it would be. However you really can't find any evidence other then crackpot stories of "I heard my uncle bob who heard it from his cousin frank, who heard it from his neighbor...." type stories of this.

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I believe that refers to a "figure of speech" that was somewhat popular in american sentiment after the Pearl Harbor attack during WW2. In other words that Japanese blood would be shed on Mt Fuji to avenge the attack on Pearl.

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Dude I was looking this question up to because it said so LOL!

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I think it depends

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go here it says about it

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Answer 10

Not exactly. It was the occupation boys that painted Tokyo red...