> I just want to provide color for why American leadership seemed so relatively unconcerned with the lives of Japanese civilians in 1945. They were concerned a

> I just want to provide color for why American leadership seemed so relatively unconcerned with the lives of Japanese civilians in 1945. They were concerned about Japanese lives. They were more concerned about American lives, but they concluded the shorter the war was the more lives of everyone involved could be saved. The Japanese food situation was also very dire: there was a very real risk of famine during Winter 1945-46, and so if the war could be ended before that many millions of Japanese civilians could be saved.