It's more than the atom bombs iffy - the home front in Japan was a particularly hard place to be between '42 and 45 - and the atom bombs made it whole lot more after 46 - The Japanese more than most know the consequences of near total destruction of their infrastructure. I think that the Americans have matured more than you give them credit for. Japan has, after all, has become the paragon of capitalism since 1945. They'll get the assistance they need as most nations have moved on.
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