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Not unless the bulk of corturnix were concentrated around the epicenters of those two bombs. It was probably the constant conventional bombing and a general lack of food for them. Food production facilities were fair game for bombing runs and Japan was functionally blockaded with no trade by...

Apparently World War II caused a massive loss of coturnix, and our current population is based upon just a few surviving individuals. Puts the OP’s question in a different light.

Do they raise the chicks?

I’m guessing the concern comes from the fact that in their domesticated form they generally cannot go broody or otherwise take care of themselves in the wild? Supposing a calamity dries up the worldwide supply of affordable, mass produced, feed, there are still wild Corturnix that will likely...