Lennon, Ono asked Japan to allow A-bomb film to be shown abroad

Why print this on New Years Day?

Why now? Oh, and let’s not forget who started the war

A relic of the sixties.

The U.S. government seized and or banned publication in Japan of photographs of bombing victims taken by Japanese, a ban that remained throughout the Occupation years to 1952.

Americans were only been allowed to see grainy, black and white images of rubble in the atomic cities, never the victims, who were mainly women, elderly men and children.

All of the footage had been classified top secret and buried by the U.S. military. Some of it would eventually be used in training films, but none of it was shown to the public. The color images were just too revealing not only of unfathomable destruction of buildings, but above all the long-lasting damage to human bodies.

Seized at the same time by the U.S. and hidden for the next quarter of a century was all of the searing black and white footage shot earlier by the leading Japanese newsreel company, Nippon Eiga Sha. 

Sussan tried for twenty years to find and make use of his footage--Americans still had not been exposed to color images of any kind from Hiroshima and Nagasaki--but he got nowhere, even after personally approaching everyone from famed newsman Edward R. Murrow to former President Harry S. Truman. 

https://apjjf.org/2020/12/Mitchell.html

This is why Japanese should see this,they will not be gung ho for war and the American should be see it ,how be the military hides truth for their own political reasons, against the Constitution

It's no surprise that Lennon/Ono's quixotic jousting for peace ended in rejection by the authorities since exposing the truth of mankind's homicidal violence captured on film footage and photographs showing the hard-core "pornography" of war is rightfully feared by all governments as a trigger for evoking the public's natural revulsion thus undermining a government's narrative and control of the way war is conducted. This story is now history, but it goes to show that, unchecked in the hands of government people, war will always be a lesson humanity cannot learn from history.

Lennon, Ono asked 

That's what heroes do. Love them both!

Just food for thought. Japan committed unspeakable atrocities in Asia. The US military buried the evidence in order to quickly rehabilitate Japan’s image on the world stage. They didn’t want the full extent of japan’s monstrosity coming to light. So makes sense Japan would do the same.

And Lennon had a lot of opinions on war for a man who never served in the military. He sat in his bed naked with Ono to denounce war while kids were dying on the frontline. His views of reality were really out there and he was about as far removed from war as you could get. Just he was the poster boy for the hippie movement: get high, complain, protest, get high and complain again.

"Beatles musician John Lennon and his peace activist wife Yoko Ono"

Surely it would have been better to write, "Peace activists, musician John Lennon and his wife and artist, Yoko Ono…"

And Lennon had a lot of opinions on war for a man who never served in the military.

Are you actually suggesting that a peace activist must serve in the military to be taken seriously? So only current or ex-military types are to be listened to?

WA4TKGToday  07:07 am JST

Why now? Oh, and let’s not forget who started the war

The civilians, old men. women, children and babies did not start the war.

Representatives from 93 countries have attended the A-Bomb Memorials because of the shared global hope that humans will never use nuclear weapons on each other again. This is reflected in the views of John Lennn and Yoko Ono as this article indicates.

Best get a clue.

Why now?

Good question.

Oh, and let’s not forget who started the war

Depends on which version of history you read. But regardless which country started it, it was not started by their civilian population.

Military conscription in the UK ended in the mid-1950s. Lennon was a musician, and a peace activist not a soldier. CND and Ban-the-Bomb.

The names of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, must hang forever like a heavy necklace on the necks of every leader of every country in the world : lest they forget.

The chain of events that led to ww2 were undoubtedly started by the JIA.

A persistent agenda that went on for quite some time

Exactly

Started the Pacific War because WW2 also involved the European War.

Stephen Chin,the US did not think much of Japanese,Stalin Churchill agreed with the US to nuke Japan

Awa no GaijinToday  10:47 am JST

Yep the war crimes committed by the USA that were never held accountable.

And then there was the JIA that started it all and was also never fully held accountable either.

The IJA were held accountable. Please educate yourself before commenting.

"Twenty-eight high-ranking political and military leaders were indicted on 55 counts of "crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity." 

"On November 4, 1948, Webb announced that all of the defendants had been found guilty. Seven were sentenced to death, sixteen to life terms, two to lesser terms, two had died during the trials and one had been found insane. "

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/macarthur-tokyo-war-crimes-trials/

@Nippori Nick

I’m not saying that a peace activist actually needs to have served in the military. I’m just saying it’s hard to take Lennon seriously. All his talk of peace and love… he didn’t show a lot of peace and love to those close to him. Was physically abusive and beat his first wife and then abandoned her and his son and didn’t even bother to have a relationship with his first born because Ono didn’t want him to and then Ono doin the same thing to her first husband and daughter… the two of them were/ are the biggest hypocrites and hard to take seriously. Maybe they cared about “world peace” but not anything remotely close to home.

“And then there was the JIA that started it all and was also never fully held accountable either.”

Does JIA stand for Japanese Imperial Army? If so, there was no way of holding it accountable because the organization was disbanded in 1946 by the US occupation forces. Also, the Japanese Imperial Navy started the war by attacking Pearl Harbor.

YrralToday  11:04 am JST

The US had 10 more Tokyo probably made the list Google US 12 Nuclear Japan Bomb

Absolute hogwash. A third was still under construction when Japan surrendered. The 3rd and 4th wouuld not used until the tests in 1946.

WW2 Japan War was started last century when USA blocked Japan’s access to resources. The funny thing is…because of USA orders, we sanctioned Russia, basically blocking Japan’s access to resources.

OssanAmericaToday  10:14 am JST*

WA4TKGToday  07:07 am JST

Why now? Oh, and let’s not forget who started the war

The civilians, old men. women, children and babies did not start the war.''

Yet the vast majority of old men and women supported it.

Awa no GaijinToday  10:47 am JST

the actual atrocity that took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yep the war crimes committed by the USA that were never held accountable.'

The US gave several warnings to the Japanese gov't. They even dropped leaflets on Hiroshima and Nagasaki telling civilians to evacuate. The Japanese gov't refused to provide war rations for those leaving the city forcing them to stay. By this point, the war was lost and the Japanese gov't knew it yet they did nothing to protect their own citizens.

I'm curious to know what war crimes you're talking about. Of course they were atrocities committed by individual soldiers. It's inevitable. But what forms of atrocities on a large, institutionalized scale did the US commit? Did the US have organized brothels by POW women, experimental units like Unit 731, and mass POW executions? How were Japanese POWs treated by the US?

RodneyToday  01:09 pm JST

WW2 Japan War was started last century when USA blocked Japan’s access to resources. The funny thing is…because of USA orders, we sanctioned Russia, basically blocking Japan’s access to resources.

Those resources were in other countries and not in domestic Japan. Japan got into a war with China and Russia over those resources so Asian nations and Russia were already blocking access to their resources from Japan before they also started a war with the US. The fact that Japan was engaged in several wars already before starting one with the US says it all. More likely they started wars and subsequently WWII because they wanted to steal those resources not trade for them. They clearly wanted to be an imperialistic power in the region.

WW2 Japan War was started last century when USA blocked Japan’s access to resources. The funny thing is…because of USA orders, we sanctioned Russia, basically blocking Japan’s access to resources.

Ohhhhhh….the poor Imperial Japanese. Just needed to steal their neighbors resources to continue one of the most rapacious, destructive conquests of an entire continent of the last several hundred years.

of course , the big mean ol’ US said “No” so they were just asking for thousands of their troops to be slaughtered in their sleep completely unprovoked.

Honestly, people like you are reprehensible in how you will twist history to excuse evil because of your modern day issues and psychiatric hang ups with other entities (re: the Us). It’s shameful and taints every one of your awful posts.

Nippori NickToday  10:14 am JST

Are you actually suggesting that a peace activist must serve in the military to be taken seriously?

No.

So only current or ex-military types are to be listened to?

No.

But Lennon was all talk and no action.

And just making a blanketed call for peace was not sincere.

How about film of allies being beheaded, Chinese being massacred. Show one film then show them all.

Google Unit 731 and get a taste of what the Japanese were up to during this time. Not all peace and love I’m afraid.

There were many atrocities during the war from all sides. The atomic bombing of civilians is got to be the worse followed by the firebombing of cities. The JIF also committed many atrocities and a war crimes court was held and those found guilty were punished.

Some seem to see a threat to their masculinity in those who advocate peace and love and need to find a way to bring them down. But time to see yourself for what you are: part of the problem. Yes, I am talking to you who will neg this post.

But Lennon was all talk and no action.

You clearly haven't listened to "the Ballad of John and Yoko". Plenty of action there!!!

As long as we have people who are obsessed with guns and fasinated with weapons the tragedy will be repeated for sure, but this time its going to be on a large scale.

The US gave no warnings before nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki civilians . By this point, the war was lost and the American gov't knew it, yet they went ahead and murdered civilians.

The US had organised brothels exploiting impoverished women and children, as well as live human experimentation such as the Guatemala Syphilis Experiment that targeted orphaned children, and a policy of surrendering exterminating POWs.

In A War Without Mercy, John Dower examined this key factor concluding that American soldiers, sailors, and marines generally refused to take prisoners, even if the opportunity arose. Towards the end of the war, when victory was assured, American commanders resorted to bribing troops with liberty-passes and ice cream in order to bring in the first Japanese prisoners. The combination of Japanese culture and American hatred resulted in low numbers of prisoners captured during the majority of the Pacific War.

The US gave no warnings before nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki civilians .

I believe leaflets were dropped before the atomic bomb was dropped, warning if destruction.

Two has been seeking some attention

I believe leaflets were dropped before the atomic bomb was dropped, warning if destruction.

Much of Japan was showered by American forces with millions of leaflets, each containing a seemingly humanitarian plea to evacuate the citizens of twelve cities named on the leaflet’s reverse side. There are three known versions of this leaflet, designed by General Curtis LeMay, and the cities named were almost all of questionable military or economic value.

Hiroshima was not among them.

https://hyperallergic.com/216234/the-leaflets-dropped-before-the-hiroshima-atomic-bomb/

How about government propaganda showing Japan's civilians training for an invasion?