It was fortunate the U.S. had those nukes at the time. Otherwise the war would have dragged on and on for months, if not years, and would likely have cost the lives of tens of thousands of our enlisted servicemen.
The Japanese government openly supports Japanese domestic groups demanding official apologies from the U.S. government for having dropped those two A bombs. While I do feel sympathy for all the civilian lives lost in those two bombings, but I do strongly feel the Japanese had it coming.
To this day, the Japanese government has made no official apologies for the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, for the intentional torture and murder of Allied POW's (the mortality rate of Allied POW's in Japanese internment camps approached 70%, as opposed to the single digit mortality rate of Allied POW's in German internment camps).
And the Japanese government to this day continues to deny, and downplay all the atrocities the Japanese army committed in China, Korea, Philipines, and the rest of Asia. In particular, the Japanese government enshrines all the executed class A war criminals in the Yasukuni Shrine, in the heart of Tokyo, and revere them as matyrs. Prominent Japanese politicians, including the prime minister, pay annual visits to this Shrine, to pay their respects to these class A war criminals. The Japanese government omits any mention of their wartime atrocities in school history textbooks, effectively denying their next generation the right to learn the truth of what really happened. Oh the Japanese love "saving face" alright. They are "saving face" by burying the truth.
How can the Japanese government even begin to demand apologies from the U.S. for dropping those two A bombs, when they themselves have vehemently denied their very own barbarity (which started the war in Asia, and the war with the U.S. in the Pacific theater, in the first place).
