>>509763192 (OP)hearts and minds, the americans helped japan rebuild after japan had gone as far as to seal 17 year olds into torpedoes and inside planes, to suicide attack american targets, the japanese posed absolute resistance and fought to win, right until the nukes dropped. once they realized america could just wipe japan off of the map with a series of nuclear devices, and that japan could not fight that in any way, they surrendered, completely and totally.