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I love Japan and I lived there for many years. But this subject always annoyed me.
The facts are simple.
Japan was the aggressor. Imperial Japan decided they wanted a piece of the imperialist pie just as the rest of the world was realizing it was not the right way to go.
Japan was brutal. I know Japan won't teach this to children in Japanese schools, but if you are adults reading this, go ahead and look up Unit 731, the Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, Manila massacre, not to mention Pearl Harbor ... The list is endless. There is a reason China, Korea and pretty much all of Southeast Asia still hold a grudge.
Japan would not surrender. By August 1945, Imperial Japan was beaten. This was obvious to all inside and outside Japan. Yet, the government refused to surrender. Civilians were prepared to fight to the death. Not unlike Hitler in Berlin, the high command was willing to sacrifice innocent lives.Truman always believed the decision to drop atomic weapons saved both American and Japanese lives. I'm sure he was right.
So yeah, I think the citizens of Hiroshima can "bear to watch" this movie, which bends over backwards to portray the moral and ethical concerns Americans had about the bomb anyway.
And by the way, Japan sits comfortably under America's nuclear umbrella. So we protect you with our nukes so you don't have to own such terrible weapons. How long do you think you would last among such dictators as Xi Jinping without our protection?
Sorry for bringing all this up, but I got really tired of hearing every Japanese salary man I knew mention Hiroshima to me every time he was drunk. I always kept silent and let the comments pass. But now you are going to complain about a fairly innocuous movie? I gotta say something.
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Posted in: Japan to start offering residency to 4th-generation descendants See in context
What I really hope for is that Japan will take care of all the Zainichi Koreans. This change doesn't seem to address that.
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This is literally and figuratively a “new idea”
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