Baton Death march, 10’s of thousands of Chinses innocents raped and murdered viciously, Japanese imperialism that treated all others as chattel to be abused.
Stop with the pity, they literally got what they deserved for countless state sponsored atrocities that the common Japanese person at the time did not lift a finger to protest, in fact culturally they supported it.
I have sympathy for those who suffered under any attack, nothing though for those who use such suffering as a way to undermine an action used to end a war that was not of our making.
Unit 731.
The bomb. Made in America. Tested in Japan.
You’re speaking from a position of ignorance. The common Japanese person knew almost nothing about war atrocities. News was incredibly tightly controlled by the Japanese government during WW2. There was almost no alternative press, there was no pirate radio in Japan, etc.
As a virtuous liberal, I think we should not have dropped those two bombs. We should have spared the Japanese from the horrors of the usage of nuclear weapons and instead subjected them to the pleasures of an invasion. Yes, perhaps 20,000,000 of them would have died, not to mention the million or so casualties the Allies would have suffered. And the complete and total devastation of the Japanese homeland. But hey, things happen. And then we could all feel virtuous about how we held back from dropping those two awful weapons.
The atomic bombs saved millions of lives.