What most people in the west neglect about Japan was what it was doing to China and south-east Asia during the war. Their killing of civilians was greater than

What most people in the west neglect about Japan was what it was doing to China and south-east Asia during the war. Their killing of civilians was greater than what the atomic bombs did. That's where the good came from - saving the rest of Asia, not saving America. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were industrial cities making the weapons that the Japanese were using to kill the Chinese civilians. The residents were civilians but not entirely innocent. They were part of the war machine.