The atomic bombings did not save lives. They didn’t end the war. The Japanese leadership didn’t even respond to them. We had already so thoroughly brutalized Japan at that point that the loss of two medium sized cities was a drop in the bucket. We annihilated over 30 Japanese cities before we dropped the bombs. The real reason we dropped them was to demonstrate to the Soviets that we had them. The Japanese surrendered because the Soviets were also about to launch an invasion and the Japanese Empire knew they’d get better terms negotiating with us.
the American occupation forces literally granted many personnel involved in Unit 731, including Shirō Ishii (its lead director), legal immunity from war crime tribunals in exchange for their contribution to US bioweapon research. Japanese war crimes were never a priority, and in some cases they were even an asset, for the United States during and after the war.
Shinzo Abe (y'know the funny breeding man everyone loves to make jokes on on here) is the grandson of the "Demon of Showa" Kishi Nobusuke, the brutal wartime governor of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo and a class A war criminal who was subsequently installed by the US as its first post-occupation prime minister. The US has consistently been supportive, if anything, of Japanese fascism and its legacy.










