I disagree. You are forgetting that Japan (far more than Iraq, for example) had a recent quasi-Democratic condition of free elections. The imperial elite had been thoroughly discredited even before the bomb and Japan was beaten. This is why the Japanese were sending out peace feelers! It was not necessary for us to violate the ancient rules of war by a TERRORISTIC tactic of INTENTIONAL killing thousands of babies (both in the womb and in their cribs) as well as destroy the heart of Japanese Christianity. If that Japanese had done that to our babies and little old ladies, there would have been no question that they would have been executed for war crimes.
I meant to say they had a tradition not condition.