Or maybe I was making a conscious choice to comment on the one but not the other. In the last 20 years or so, there's been a wide reconsideration about the mora

Or maybe I was making a conscious choice to comment on the one but not the other. In the last 20 years or so, there's been a wide reconsideration about the morality of dropping bombs (whether nuclear or conventional) on civilian populations during the war. I don't think we need to have yet another conversation about that. Instead, I'm trying to understand the Japanese viewpoint, where they get a telegram that 100k people have been killed in a raid and think "Bummer, but we fight on!".