Asking for a victor of a war to apologize is such a Western concept that I doubt the Japanese would appreciate it.
Yes obviously the reason nobody in the US was punished is because the US won the war. That doesn’t stop it from being regrettable that the people involved in blowing up two cities (the second one apparently by mistake), and we therefore have to hear from sanctimonious Americans claiming that the whole thing was no big deal!
And prosecuting them in Germany was delayed so long that eventually they were declared unfit to stand trial. It's ridiculous.
Of course it wasn't. International law, or even modern international law, didn't start in 1945. The Geneva and Hague conventions predate wwii.
In fact i think the US did it with Saddam.
Some comments here are nuts. Equating what the US and the Allies did during the war to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan is insane, and as a Jew just fucking disgraceful. People really need to get a history book.
The link posted is interesting from a historical perspective, but the comments here just ragging on the US for the bombs and treating Japan like an innocent is just crazy to me. I guess thats what happens when you let war-crime denying Japan rewrite the history books. People here really don't grasp how truly _evil_ Imperial Japan was.