Perhaps you should ask what was the motivation of the United States in being in a total war with Japan? Why couldn’t the US accept peace terms, (something the J

Perhaps you should ask what was the motivation of the United States in being in a total war with Japan? Why couldn’t the US accept peace terms, (something the Japanese repeatedly requested), why did the US need Japan to unconditionally surrender, to the point that the US got to rewrote their constitution? (And entertain the thought of hanging their king) I’m not asking if you think this outcome is right, or if you have some post-hoc justification now, I’m asking if you know what justification the US made to themselves in 1940’s to enter total war with Japan, that led them to kill 200,000+ civilians with 2 Nuclear Bombs, and a Tokyo Fire Raid to force Japan to surrender. The past if you really try to understand it was a different country, in our past the Life Magazine of 1944 wrote a story of a soldiers girlfriend receiving a Japanese Skull as a gift with incredible quotes like : “This is a good Jap—a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach.” Natalie, surprised at the gift, named it Tojo.” (Link: https://time.com/3880997/young-woman-with-jap-skull-portrait-of-a-grisly-wwii-memento/ https://time.com/3880997/young-woman-with-jap-skull-portrait...) The typical response to this from present folk is that “But the Japanese did the Rape of Nanking, and other atrocities”, which almost implies (though the astute never explicitly make this implication), that the US fought the Japanese to right all the atrocities that the Japanese were doing in Pacific region. No one who studies history will ever claim this, if you do study history, it’s hard to not see US as a deceitful bully with lunatic tendencies. One reading of our history that I find may not be the whole truth but certainly has a lot of truth to it, is that Japan was a pawn used by the US Government to drum up support for US to enter WW2, something most of the intelligentsia in US desperately wanted to do, but were always hampered by lack of public appetite to involve itself in this bloody conflict on the other side of the world. Unfortunately a side effect of playing this role for Japan was getting bombed into oblivion when you refused to surrender your sovereignty to the allied powers.