However, Willard Elsbree, professor emeritus of political science at Ohio University, claims that the Japanese government and these nationalist leaders never developed "a real unity of interests between the two parties, there was no overwhelming despair on the part of the Asians at Japan's defeat".
Willard Elsbree, professor emeritus i politologi på Ohio University, hævder imidlertid, at den japanske regering og nationalisterne aldrig udviklede "en ægte enighed om de to parters interesser, der var ingen overvældende sorg i de andre asiatiske lande over Japans nederlag".