Japan was pretty much on its knees by this point in the war though, the US had them effectively surrounded and cut off from resupply/oil/etc. 

From here

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/5308192

According to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-US secretary of state James Byrnes, Truman agreed at a meeting three days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that Japan was “looking for peace”. Truman was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there was no military need to use the bomb.

“Impressing Russia was more important than ending the war in Japan,” says Selden.

So youre saying because the US and UK were untouchable they were right in doing the same things like Japan did? 

Trade embargos are an act of agression, North Korea was sanctioned since 20 years. And look at them now, they have their own nuke. Did these sanctions made it better?

There's clearly been some kind of mix up. The guy you're after is President Truman.

I wouldn't want Obama to apologise for Horishima/Nagasaki anymore than I'd want Abe to apoligise for Pearl Harbor.

Trust me, the US and the Allies had already committed plenty of war crimes in Germany long before those atom bombs were dropped. Nobody who was involved in WWII walked away with clean hands. 

 However, the ground invasion was planned for November of 1945 and was expected to last well into 1946. It was known as Operation Downfall while the exact date of the operation (November, 1945) was known as X-Day. While Japan had no way of resupplying itself, the government their had started to train civilians on the basics of hand to hand combat and had also told them to start removing metal pipes from their houses and sharpen them into usable weapons. They were getting to that point of desperation. Japan also had a defense force that was still fairly well equipped. Much of their Navy had been destroyed as well as the Air Force, giving the US free reign of the skies and surrounding sea but the army was the main problem. The idea from the extreme right-wing element of Japan was that surrender wasn't an option while the more reasonable people within the government thought the US and allies would want to agree to what they saw as more reasonable surrender terms. The plans had been drafted without consideration for the atomic bombs sinc ethe bombs was kept a secret from almost everybody and were still technically on the table after the bombs were dropped. 

Civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan deserves an apology too

Also Pearl harbor was a military base

And others will contradict that guy.  I don't take sides much on this and really rarely comment.  Cause frankly both sides always wind up shouting at each other in rage, usually with gobs of misinformation or just insults.  My point was that Japan's helplessness on other islands hadn't stopped them before.  And for a country on their kneesknees they sure were still gearing up to make a campaign of attrition.  I have no doubt that impressing Russia was on their mind.  But they could have done that within the parameters of Operation Downfall.  Or they could have targeted a far larger city.  This image usually painted by anti-hiroshima people is of a cold, unthinking, murderous government.  Me?  I don't *know* what went on in those meetings, I don't *know* what Truman was thinking.  I just know that the War was hell, Japan did  lenty if terrible things themselves, and the circumstances that lead to their surrender were sure as hell better than Operation Downfall which would have killed far more civilians and military due to the measures Japan took in Operation Ketsugo.

Also, the Japanese government wanted peace, we wanted surrender.  Very different things.  That was the point of Ketsugo.

Because those countries are serving the interests of the people who are currently at the head the US government...who were not the same people who were in charge back in the 1930's and 40's. Before the Neocons came along and started dictating US foreign policy, America left most of everyone alone. As for the colonization of US territory, two wrongs don't make a right. Japan had this mentality that because the US and Britain colonized certain territories, that they also have that right. That is the wrong mentality to have. Not to mention, they didn't simply occupy US territories. They committed all sorts of acts of torture and murder of POW's and civilians. That was completely uncalled for and unjustified.

All I know Is it saved my grandfathers life , he was a POW in Japan at the time and told me that there where documents sent out to all the prisons ordering that in the case of an allied invasion  the staff  where to kill all POW's by any means neccesary including shooting ,beheading  ,strangulation etc.  

Also, funny how the nukes get all the attention when the firebombing of Japan in the lead up to invasion resulted in significantly more civilian death. 100k+ more. Just food for thought. Or should we apologize for that too?

Ironically, the Pearl Harbor attack that got the US into the war was carried out by someone who thought it was a terrible idea. Isoroku Yamamoto, who actually lived in the US for sometime and went to Harvard knew that the US would never take kindly to such an attack and had predicted that Japan could not win a war against the US. Unfortunately, he was a Navy guy and one of the more reasonable moderates who actually openly criticized a lot of Japan's war aggressions. The people in government unfortunately, were those who were either in the Army or loyal to the Army and it was the Army who dictated Japan's wartime policies. It is no wonder that most of Japan's war crimes were carried out by those and in Army and not so much the Navy.

I think if Japan had more people like Yamamoto involved in government policy making, perhaps those atom bomb attacks may not have ever happened.