We all enjoy the products of the modern, defanged Japan and some have Japanese friends (I do) - the past is the past. But if some today want to call the US an evil empire or a criminal state for having used the Bomb, documentaries like this one are a necessity. The Japanese back then were blood-thirsty fanatics, and, like nazi Germany, the embodiment of an out-of-control, murderous state. China and Korea know this, and we used to know it too before we developed self-loathing and our memories got fuzzy. When asked about Abu Ghraib in the movie Voices of Irak, an Iraki stated that, "the Americans, they do the 'nice' kind of torture". The not-so-nice kind is in evidence here. The fact that our government decided for political and national security reasons to use and/or let go some of the most egregious war criminals is an unpopular, but well calculated move made in our interest, and in no way puts us on the same level as the monsters we've had to fight.