The Japanese need not apologize to the Americans; it is the Americans who must apologize to Japan for dropping the ATOM BOMB.  All one has to do is read the Office of Strategic Services declassified accounts of the events on Japanese civilians after the bomb was dropped to take a trip to hell.  The Americans unleashed the NUCLEAR AGE. The Japanese destroyed a few ships and killed less than 4000 people.  American nationalism like racism is a false god.  It's a shibboleth.