One of the comments is from a metrosexual who says he’s married to a Japanese woman (well, he did get that part right), and how painful it is for her family to think about our nukes hitting them.
One question I’d ask him to covey to her family: Why did something like half of the US POWs under Japan die before being released, whereas only around 5% of US POWs under Germany died?
In fact, just those added POW deaths may have exceeded the number of those killed by the nukes.
The militaristic (at the time) leaders of Japan led their people down the road to ruin. The blame for the pain their people endured must be laid at the feet of their leaders, who stubbornly clung to the outmoded code of Bushido even after it became clear that doing so would only end in disaster. And perhaps their pain can be somewhat assuaged by the knowledge that America as the victorious power pursued an altruistic policy of rebuilding and establishment of an enlightened and modern nation that has been able to recover in a remarkably short time from a disastrous war and become a world economic power. Certainly a better fate than many defeated societies in past eras have endured.