[timuckun]

The problem is that the Americans saw no difference between soldiers committing atrocities and old people and children living in a city (fight aged men were out fighting).

They were targeting old people and children because it was easier to kill them than the soldiers.

[wiseowise]

Sorry they didn’t invent HIMARS and satellite precision strikes yet.

[ForOldHack]

The please explain why Kyoto was taken off the lists of targets?

[okasaki]

Because the secretary of war spent his honeymoon there and didn't want to tarnish his memory.