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... this was a grave mistake.
A demonstration for the powers that be in Tokyo Bay would have sufficed ... and the war would have ended on a more honorable note.
And the Japanese would have had to face their awful crimes against humanity ... that went back decades all over Asia.
As it is today, the Japanese have never faced anything ... and continue to wallow in their 'victimhood' ... in an especially pathetic way every ealy August.
I've lived in Tokyo for a long time and am rather sick of the total focus on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, at the expense of everything and everyone else related to WW2 in Asia.
What a terrible vacuum of memory these bombs created, along with the incredible human suffering of course.
