Originally Posted by
Mario F.
ermm... read about the Second Sino-Japanese War. By the time the bombs were dropped, it had been already 3 years since the Japanese territorial cleansing in China was over. Starting in 1942-43 Japan was mostly holding territory in mainland China and could never again progress any further until the war was over in 1945.
And to add to that, in a desperate attempt to secure what remaining Chinese territory Japan still had, they changed politics and tried to institute a series of friendly puppet regimes, starting in 1944 if memory serves me right.