Japan should have had 10 nukes dropped on it as payback for the Rape Of Nanking alone. Just one of many atrocities they willingly did and enjoyed.
What’s sad is we have to go to China State Media to find reasonable balance.
Yes but then that would have just given the pacifists of the future all the more ammo to condemn the US with. The leaders in FDR’s Truman’s and Churchill’s time were well acquainted with pacifists of their era and could anticipate (redacted) like Obama eventually being able to come to power and to use the power of high office to cast doubt upon the decision to drop the first two bombs.
I would wonder if after a few more years Japan would come to its senses and reconcile its collective national conscience more fully with its sordid past, as (for example) Germany appears to have done.