Dropping the bomb was the right thing to do. These people would have not surrendered. Back door negotiations were supposedlyt aking place so that the Japanese could give up and save face’, an Asian concept. When you look at what they did at Nanking, Bataan, and the comfort women it’s obvious they needed to beaten into the real world as Commodore Perry threatened to do 90 years earlier. They still see themselves as a victim of the war.
My father-in-Law, who’s since passed, hated the Japs and that stayed with him his entire life. He did fight in the Pacific.
“I have a good friend who’s Korean. Stories he’s told me...combined with many other things I’ve seen,heard and read...indicate that the Japanese richly deserved to be demonized”
If you have not seen the movie there are scenes which show Japanese brutality against American sailors and Chinese guerrilla fighters.