For the Japanese, No because after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, USA came up with the atomic bomb that killed massive numbers of Japanese both innocent and not. For the Allied group (Canada, Britain and France) it is a good thing because it bought USA to war and as I said before USA came up with the atomic bomb that stopped World War II. Also the atomic bomb finally made the Japanese to surrender.
The main reason why revolution swept so many African nations following their independence from European rule was because there was a giant power vacuum that needed to be filled--usually by a dictator.
