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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I say go f%&* yourselves. Start a war with us and you got the inevitable consequences. Do you not think that if Japan or Germany had successfully created the same weapon, they would not have used it?
And I bet that China wants an apology from Japan for Imperial Japan’s war crimes against the Chinese.
In a related story, People in Hell Want Ice Water.
There is a scene where they freeze womens arms solid in the Manchurian winter, then shatter them with hammers, or peel the flesh to bare bones with boiling water.
That was the directors daughter and she got frostbite filming them. Those scenes are real, she was holding the arms of a cadaver and acting like they were hers.
And the scene with the human placed in a vacuum chamber... words defy.
The Russian mother and baby. About 30% were Russian civilians captured in the east.
And yes, American POWs were sent there. It was like a German death camp, only you’ll never meet anyone with the tattoo. No inmate survived. Not a single one. The goal wasn’t extermination and numbers like the krauts, it was Dr. Mengele medical and scientific torture where the human beings were nothing but lab rats, all taken to an Asian extreme.
The Japanese say they cannot apologize because the can only apologize if both sides agree on the facts. They say that since only Japanese soldiers confessions are available, they cannot apologize. Since the victims all died, they cannot come to an agreement! And they dare ask for an apology.
That’s good to hear. But, where were the leaders? That is who needed their becquerel raised.
We had one more bomb available after Nagasaki. Series production was starting up and we would have had one to two bombs per month beginning in September.
No apologies necessary. But Obama will certainly oblige.
Folks, you lived 71 years after the event.
Quit your bellyaching.
400,000 of our finest didn’t get the privilege.
BO will bow down and grovel for their approval. Maybe he can spit in Bibi’s face again while he is at it.
Oh, the reason some American POWs, and Russian civilians were sent to Unit 731?
Because they were doing “science”. You cannot be sure if your science is accurate unless you use all the human races you can get your hands on. You might only learn how the plague affects a Chinese body. They wanted to ensure their bioweapons would work on white peoples.
Absolutely correct. Our children aren’t taught history the way it happened, they are taught we are the guilty ones in everything since our founding.
What I don’t understand is why the same people who stand up for America in cases like this are the same ones driving Toyota’s and other Jap cars as well as BMW’s and other German cars. Take a look at Detroit today and realize you have PAID THE AXIS countries WELL for their ATROCITIES ALREADY!
Compare and contrast with how Russians commemorate VE-Day.
They hold military parades and people march with pictures of their relatives who fought in the War, it’s called the “Immortal Regiment”.
Say what you will about the Russians, but they remember their history and celebrate their victories and don’t apologize for winning.
If Pearl Harbor was not attacked, Hiroshima would be intact.
What I dont understand is why the same people who stand up for America in cases like this are the same ones driving Toyotas and other Jap cars as well as BMWs and other German cars....Because American cars are union built pieces of shiite that do not last, on average, more than three years. Do you know who planned obsolence was introduced by? And don’t bullshit me with anecdotal crap about your one Chevy that lasted since 1920.
Not if Mao had his way.
No apology - ever!
F-U!
(or in the event that cannot be properly translated, then I would say 'kiss my butt')
In fact, we demand that the Japanese people and their government, including the beloved emperor, fully acknowledge the atrocities their military visited on untold millions of civilians not to mention the various violations committed on prisoners of war.
So seriously, F-U!
Sincerely,
'Murica!
It’s good the Emperor survived; he was the one who decided to surrender.
The military leaders wanted to fight to the last man, woman and child.
Well, they picked the right (p)resident from whom to demand an apology. He’ll probably thow in a kowtow and fellatio while he’s at it.
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