Japan's A-bomb survivors: From discrimination to a Nobel

Biggest war crime in history..

It really should stand for something and mean something.

But does it?

Yes, mistreatment of hibakusha only started when the bomb was dropped.

Imamura Shohei's film Kuroi Ame is a moving depiction of this.

Way to forget that they were victims and it was a massacre.

The discrimination they experienced is truly shameful. But still , people from Tohoku were discriminated in the same way after the disaster there.

Finally gets the recognition and honor he long deserves. Time to heal.

I agree a deliberated war crime, massacre by powers that were understood.. by the ones who releashed them. Time to listen, Nobel peace price award. Not just putin etc everybody on the planet. Maybe the time is approaching for the slightly less elder generation (woodstock+) and all those who lived thru Cuba , Cold War etc when such horrors were still a fresh reality to get on the phone to their missile specialist offspring and give them a good talking to.

It ain't a computer game,, it ain't a wikipedia knowledge quiz. Sure these guys are old, but they are the few survivor (ok, they gotno smartphones) Any of guys, gals know why nobel introduced the awards?? (no s/phs no wiki!)

@TokyoLiving I agree that it was the biggest war crime in history... that the Japanese government would throw its own people under the bus just for its own "glory".

A long time ago I met a young Korean woman whose father was freed from a labor camp in Japan because of the atomic bomb. He was working in Hiroshima, coincidentally.

By the way, the Imperial Japanese Army massacred 250,000 Chinese as retribution for the Doolittle raid on Japan. That is more than the total number of dead from both Atomic Bombs.

"People faced extreme discrimination" over their scars and exposure to radiation, Yamada told AFP.

"In the past, people told hibakusha, 'Don't get married' or 'Don't come close. You are infectious',

Many kind of discrimination in Japan not only those survivor, there are also burakimin people, and of course foreigners that face many kind of discrimination in Japan.

TokyoLiving I agree that it was the biggest war crime in history... that the Japanese government would throw its own people under the bus just for its own "glory".

Yeah, spicy pepper person. That's exactly how it played out. おめでとう for squaring that circle.

Biggest war crime in history..

How so?

I agree a deliberated war crime

How so?

Biggest war crime in history..

Lol The Japanese quantifiably committed far worse in the same war. The Rape of Nanjing event alone was quantifiably more calculated and cost more lives.

War is always tragic and nobody should have to suffer or be bombed, especially powerless civilians. Or comfort women. Or whatever pick your outrage. I hope that no country ever uses a nuke in aggression again. I have nothing but respect for modern day Japan, and my 94 yo father who passed away this year spent several years after WW2 helping to rebuild roads and infrastructure in Japan and he never had a negative word to say. Till his dying day he was still raving about all the nice people on his road crew and how much he loved everyone there. He had a lot less to say about what happened when he was drafted to Korea afterwords, and oh look who has nukes there now?