Hiroshima mayor lashes out at U.S. on 59th anniversary of atomic bombing

Japan Today ^ | 06 Aug 04 | Shinya Ajima

[doug from upland]

Put some ice on it. Oh, that's right, we melted all your ice.

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

The Japanese at the time were SOBs who still didn't want to surrender even after we dropped the 2nd bomb. We had to bluff them into thinking we had a 3rd Atomic bomb that we'd use against Tokyo.

[Dallas59]

Is Jeffin Japanese?

[fish hawk]

The Japanese people are pretty nice now but back then... the bomb was not big enough!!!!

[DuncanWaring]

Since the Japanese are so big on apologies, how about one for Pearl Harbor, the battles of Midway and Okinawa, the Bataan death march?

Don't forget Nanking and the whole rest of their beloved "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere".

[bwteim]

Ping your Supportive of dropping the bomb ping!

[Fast1]

Get his Japanese head out of the A$$ and count himself lucky They should of got 200 Bombs instead of just two and to this day be in the 15th Century for the Mass Butchery and Misery caused by their Military during WWII Those animals murdered more people leaving Manila almost than died in those bombs.

BTW where are the reparations for Americans forced to Slave labor??? I do not pity them Read Ghost Soldiers

[Rebelbase]

The world has forgotten what bloody butchers the Japanese were during their invasion and occupation of S.E. Asia.

Animals is too nice a term to use to describe the actions of their military at that time.

[Rebelbase]

I'd like to be around the Arizona Memorial when Japanese tourists take "thumbs up" pictures....I'd blow a fuse if I saw that.

[GATOR NAVY]

Don't forget Nanking and the whole rest of their beloved "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere".

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend Richard Frank's "Downfall" for an excellent account of the last days of the war. He makes an interesting point that addition to the bombs saving American lives, we owed it to the people of the Japanese occupied nations to end the war as quickly as possible. The civilian deaths in The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere were much greater than most people are aware of.

[GATOR NAVY]

See my #30.

[razorbak]

Nuke 'em til they glow -- remember Pearl Harbor.

[nothingnew]

Keep it up Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and we might do it again.

FMCDH(BITS)

[weegee]

The Japanese count every person who was in the city at the time of the bombing as an atomic-bomb victim, no matter what their state of health or cause of death. A perfectly healthy 80 year old woman who got hit by bus while crossing the street would be an "atomic-bomb victim" if she had been in Hiroshima 6 Aug 1945.

Sounds like the way the antiwar movement has been tallying "900 deaths in Iraq". They have included people who died of industrial accidents in Kuwait, heartattacks in Germany, and even being hit by a truck in Kansas as long as they were "deployed" in Iraq. In the case of the woman in Kansas, she was hit while on leave; she has since been purged from many of the lists but not all.

There are inflated figures in the "Bush's fault" list because they are after bigger numbers (probably hoping for 1000 dead by election day). There is no government count as to how many died in Iraq, just articles that run when someone dies. Even out of those who died "in Iraq", over 1/3 of them did not die in combat, but rather industrial accidents, vehicular accidents, drownings, pneumonia, etc.

[weegee]

Japan still has difficulty dealing with the issues of "comfort women" and Camp 731's medical attrocities.

[Solamente]

Hey - it's the 40th Aniversary (1964) of "Dr. Strangelove!"

[phxaz]

id say they are looking to be smacked down again.

[Petronski]

[weegee]

Well, the revisionism has been well under way for a while now.

In the next couple of generations, all of the blame for WWII will be laid at the feet of the US.

Just as we are blamed for 9/11 because of "imperialism" and fighting "the Jews' wars".

Japan made the same imperialism claims over Hawaii and Lord Haw Haw and Axis Sally made the same antisemetic comments.

The future is now.

[Morgan's Raider]

I doubt that most college students could tell you what party Harry Truman belonged to.

I doubt that most college students could tell you who Harry Truman WAS.