The Japanese city of Hiroshima is marking the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

“It’s making the Japanese look like they’re the poor people, like they didn’t do anything. They hit Pearl Harbor, they struck us. We didn’t slaughter the Japanese. We stopped the war.”

“There were all kinds of hellish battlefields in the war, some caused by the Japanese army themselves. Pearl Harbor must have been like that too. Do the hibakusha [atomic bomb survivors] really have the right to judge which is worse?

“The bombs were unnecessary – it was all just so the Americans could get data on their effectiveness!”

“It’s 65 years on and those stupid American monkeys finally get it.”

Hiroshima and Nagasaki just think they are the only places in the world ever to experience the hell of battle – they are just incorrigible.”

“Those damn hibakusha never shut up about this stuff. It’s one part of the war, why does it deserve such special treatment?”

“It was horrible what happened to them, but Japan was pursuing its own nuclear bomb project at the same time as the US. And however you look at it, Japan started the war.”

“Americans are barbarians who don’t know how to properly lament the passing of the dead.”

“It makes no sense whatsoever for people to making an issue of killing people in a war. War is already bad, but it’s meaningless to bring ethics in when its a choice of killing or being killed.”

“There are a lot of crazies here saying the bomb was justified. What’s wrong with you loons?”"As expected, Americans don’t care at all about killing 100,000 people if they’re orientals”.

“It’s a war crime and the US must apologise.”

“For the US national interest it must have the right choice. They showed their might and got the data, and they were able to entire the cold war in an advantageous position, and eventually win it.”

“Why think only of the US national interest?

The bomb ended the war quickly with no additional devastation or fighting on the Japanese mainland, saving millions. This is a matter of historical fact.

We should rather be thankful they dropped it, and recognise that they have no need to apologise.”

“I just do not understand the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why they think you should apologise for killing people in a war.”

“I can sympathise with an individual saying they are a victim of an A-bomb, but I can’t stand it when they say our whole country is the world’s only A-bomb victim.”

“Next up, compensation.”

The atomic bombs might have had scarcely any effect on Japan's surrender anyway.

No, iirc the atomic bombs had quite a big part in the surrender.