I'm not anti-American, but one American for whom I have no respect is the late Paul Tibbetts. Having read the Manhattan Project, he had more choice than what people may believe. In 1995, he said that you couldn't moralize about the dropping of the atomic bombs and that wars were hell and people got killed in them. Where he was wrong was this. The Nazis held the most seats in the Bundestag (it didn't become the Reichstag until after Hitler became Chancellor) from 1925 until 1933, but not enough seats to hold government in their own right. Hitler became Chancellor, but there was no framework to be able to say, "Right, that's enough." The Japanese did not have universal suffrage until after the Second World War and MacArthur gave women the right to vote. So, they had less say than the Germans. When an economy is geared towards total war, production is aimed that way. You cannot say that children taken out of school to assist in the war effort were fair targets. And yes, the Rape of Nanjing was an atrocity, but it was the Army from Manchuria (later Manchukuo) that caused that, not Japanese schoolchildren. And Japan was able to fill prisons with pacificists, draft dodgers and the like, among them post-war PM, Yoshida Shigeru.