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Japan had a chance to cover up more of thier atrocities and experiments since they wern't actually invaded unlike Germany who had to abandon thier Concentration camps due to encroaching forces. Atleast, that's my theory.

DragonClaw01 posted...

It was the imperial governments fault for not surrendering when they were beaten. We were carpet bombing thier cities before the a-bombs were dropped and they still didn't bother to surrender, instead they were talking about thier will to fight to last man. If anything, the a-bombs gave them a way to save face and actually surrender. And let's not forget, the Japanese ultimately started the war on America with thier pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor. It was not like America was arbitrarily picking on poor ole Japan.

Yeah, Japan quite literally wanted to fight on forever, in some cases they nearly did, there were holdouts that lasted for decades after the War. Were there other solutions? Possibly, but ultimately you can nitpick and retrospect the decisions of anybody after many decades.

In War there is no Justice or moral high ground, it's either be destroyed or force your enemies hand or. Sometimes the latter doesn't even work as seen in the lead-up after WW1 and reasons why WW2 happened.