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: From CGI's StormyOne:

They attacked Pearl Harbor first, or at least that is the official story. If true, NO! The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. Japan didn't surrender. Only then did we drop number 2.

For 15 long years, Japan embarked on a war of aggression in Asia and, long after it became clear that defeat was inevitable, refused to surrender. Japan’s government of the time and its leader, Emperor Hirohito, share together with the U.S. authorities the responsibility — both legal and moral — for the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Forced laborers sent from Japanese colonies such as Korea and Taiwan, and from occupied China and Southeast Asia, also became victims. The Japanese government unquestionably bears some moral responsibility toward these people, if not legal responsibility.

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