My daughter was watching some movie in school about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Lots of conversations with older Japanese that had survived.
They did a segment talking with high school students and asking them about the dates the bombs were dropped, what significant things ended the war, etc. Most of them had no clue. I had previously told them about how the Japanese didn’t talk about their brutality, but I was surprised they didn’t teach about the atomic bombs. Perhaps that was a loss of face for them. Or perhaps discussions on the entire war is pretty much stifled as it portrays Japan poorly (their crimes, their loss, etc.)
One thing that never seems to come up is the fact that those two bombs saved the lives of Tens. Of. Millions. of Japanese.
Someone put it to me this way:
Think of 15,000 people - its your typical big city basketball or hockey stadium filled 4/5 full.
Now imagine killing all those people. Repeat it the next day, and the next, and the next.
That is what Japan was doing every day of WWII to Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and to a far lesser extent - Americans.
So ask them - how would you have stopped that?
From what I have heard even their Universities repress the history of Imperial Japan’s atrocities during the war.