Saturday, August 06, 2005
Hiroshima Anniversary
Sixty years ago, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima, and it began a new page of mankind. We were formally entering the Atomic or Nuclear Age.
A lots of films, documentaries and books have been written about this particular day. Every now and then, the citizens of Hiroshima held memorial service on that day. If you have visited the memorial monument in Hiroshima, you would notice the graphic displays of the sufferring of the Japanese from the atomic bomb.
Do the Japanese or the world, learn the lesson from this event?Almost all of the books, films and documentaries about the Little Boy emphasize on two fronts - the scientific achievement of the Americans, and the sufferring of the Japanese after the bomb.
It may be by accident that most of these records portrait the victims of the wars were the Japanese and the aggressor were the Americans. They never mention that Japan was an aggressor of the WWII. In fact in the Hiroshima monument, they never mention the reasons why the American dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. They portrait themselves as WWII victims.
It is true that 130,000 died because of the bomb on that very day. However during the Rape of Naking, the Japanese soldiers killed 300,000 Chinese within a few days, and they acquired 100,000 comfort women for the soldiers. They never mentioned that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima because of their aggression in the WWII. In their history book, they never mention about reasons of the wars in Asia. In fact they never mention about her aggression in the War, and certainly they never apologize to all the Asian countries (in contrast to the German government).
I don't think the Japanese government has learned the lesson from the bomb - you harvest what you sow. That is why I still do not trust the Japanese government, and I have no desire to visit Japan unless it is necessary.
A lots of films, documentaries and books have been written about this particular day. Every now and then, the citizens of Hiroshima held memorial service on that day. If you have visited the memorial monument in Hiroshima, you would notice the graphic displays of the sufferring of the Japanese from the atomic bomb.
Do the Japanese or the world, learn the lesson from this event?Almost all of the books, films and documentaries about the Little Boy emphasize on two fronts - the scientific achievement of the Americans, and the sufferring of the Japanese after the bomb.
It may be by accident that most of these records portrait the victims of the wars were the Japanese and the aggressor were the Americans. They never mention that Japan was an aggressor of the WWII. In fact in the Hiroshima monument, they never mention the reasons why the American dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. They portrait themselves as WWII victims.
It is true that 130,000 died because of the bomb on that very day. However during the Rape of Naking, the Japanese soldiers killed 300,000 Chinese within a few days, and they acquired 100,000 comfort women for the soldiers. They never mentioned that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima because of their aggression in the WWII. In their history book, they never mention about reasons of the wars in Asia. In fact they never mention about her aggression in the War, and certainly they never apologize to all the Asian countries (in contrast to the German government).
I don't think the Japanese government has learned the lesson from the bomb - you harvest what you sow. That is why I still do not trust the Japanese government, and I have no desire to visit Japan unless it is necessary.
