Posted on 05/19/2016 7:59:27 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Tokyo (AFP) - Victims of the atomic bombings of Japan want an apology from US President Barack Obama when he visits Hiroshima next week, the head of a survivors' group said Thursday.
Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people in total.
Tens of thousands were killed by the fireball that the powerful Hiroshima blast generated, with many more succumbing to injuries or illnesses caused by radiation in the weeks, months and years afterwards.
Vast swathes of the city, including many of its military and industrial installations, were flattened.
The southern city of Nagasaki was hit by a second bomb days later, killing 74,000 people, in one of the final acts of World War II.
"I urge him to apologise to those who died, bereaved families and parents who lost their children," Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations and a survivor of the Nagasaki explosion, told reporters.
The comments came as Obama's much anticipated journey to Hiroshima reignited an emotional debate over whether the bombings were justified and whether the US president should apologise.
Obama, who will be in Japan for a Group of Seven summit, will visit Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on May 27 and be accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
US officials have ruled out an apology for the bombings and said Obama will not revisit the decision by then-US President Harry Truman to carry them out.
"Many atomic bomb victims think it's not all right if (Obama) doesn't apologise," said Toshiki Fujimori, the group's assistant secretary general and also a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.
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Brakes = brake pads + braking surface. (rotor or drum)
You should stop replying. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
The Japanese Army was the ISIS of the 30’s and 40’s.
Murder, torture and rape were SOP where they conquered.
The nation that spawned that evil deserved every nuke they got.
Japan is lucky that we nuked them, because it kept the Soviets, and the ChiComs out of Japan.
I was racing cars probably before you were born. Son also!
What a elderly old treat you must be.
All those years “racing” and you never took the time to learn how brakes work, or what components comprise them?
Keep trying, knucklehead. You got caught out and you can’t stand it. Geow up!
The Japs started it.....why apologize for finishing it ?
Another America sucks tour.
I’m glad I could explain brakes to you. You’re welcome.
Feel free to reach out if you have any other car questions.
Never happen. Blowhards are not my type. When YOU learn something about what you attempt to talk about, try again.
“Blowhards are not my type.”
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Must be hard to keep that glass house of yours clean.
Read your original screed about how domestic cars are amazing, and imports suck.
Talk about a blowhard! haha
Your problem. Not mine!
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