Nakagawa calls U.S. A-bombing of Japan 'an inexcusable crime'

AP ^ | 12/18/06

[sushiman]

Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable.

Nakagawa, policy chief of the ruling LDP, made the comments after visiting the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a ruling party official said.

[Waco]

What's he want? Another crack at Pearl Harbor? They didn't say "excuse me" the first time. Who is willing to be blinked away as if we never used the A-Bomb?

[MARKUSPRIME]

I love Japan,but his statement is wrong on so many levels. I agree with what my fellow Americans said here. Who was the aggressor(Japan),who was Nazi germany's ally(Japan),who invaded korea,china,the phillipines and other area's of the pacific(Japan). Who tortured our soldiers through starvation,genital mutilation,burning alive,and beheadings(Japan). Bataan death march,Nanking rape and murder,the list goes on and on. The US has forgiven Japan for these atrocities and the Japanese should be thankful that russia or china was'nt the peace brokers as Japan would not exist today. These guys need to forcus on the danger of the future not the wars of the pasts.

[ozzymandus]

Just don't make us do it again, and everything will be fine, Tojo.

[Gay State Conservative]

The lives of,perhaps,500,000 of your fellow countrymen were saved by the bomb my friend.

[reagan_fanatic]

Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable

You started it.

[Snoopers-868th]

Did I say something to make you think that I did not know that? My father was KIA in the Pacific. Do you think I give a rats A$$ what the Japanese think 60 years later? We were right to drop the bomb. Too bad we couldn't have done it sooner say shortly after December 7, 1941.

[Diogenesis]

[MARKUSPRIME]

forcus=focus

[savedbygrace]

http://www.meti.go.jp/english/aboutmeti/profiles/aNakagawae.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Nakagawa

[Rapscallion]

And what about the crimes committed on the Chinese people? Very selective outrage. Victimology, Japanese style???

The Japs also enslaved the Korean people, made the Korean women and girls in "comfort women" for the soldiers, prohibited use of the Korean language....nice guys, those Japs.

[SIDENET]

I wonder what dear Shoichi Nakagawa would call the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, the medical experiments on POWs, etc.?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If you don't like my peaches don't shake my tree.

If you can't stand the heat get the he!! out of the kitchen.

You awoke the sleeping giant and he crushed you.

[HereInTheHeartland]

We prepared for 100,000 US causalties in a US invasion of the Japanese mainland. Japanese causalties would have been several times higher.

I just wish we would have had (and used) the N capability sooner in the war.

I wish Iwo Jima could have been cleaned out with this capability.
Many brave Americans would have been able to come home that didn't make it off that island alive.

[SauronOfMordor]

There are some people who feel that the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March are inexcusable atrocities. And with more justification

Looking at it realistically, the A-bomb did not produce that much more in the way of death and devastation the the Tokyo Fire Raids or the Dresden bombings. The A-bomb just killed people with fewer bombers being necessary

If the US had had to invade Japan, and suffered millions of American dead, the Japanese would have been exterminated. It would have been Carthage writ large.

[Vaquero]

Hey Shoichi,

do you wish to talk about the rape of Nanking, or Pearl Harbor???

Shut yer gob, A-hole, before we show what Japan was really like from the 1920's through the mid 1940's.

I would like to personally thank Harry S. Truman for keeping my dad, who fought at 'the Canal' and Bouganville and was back home recouperating from a tropical disease and getting ready to be shipped out to attack mainland japan when he dropped the big ones....

[The Blitherer]

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped a bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing at least 140,000 people in the world's first atomic bomb attack.

I'm not real familiar with the details of the war against Japan, but I can understand how some Japanese, in their own way, blame us for the first atomic strike. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. But how in the world can ANYBODY blame the US for the second strike? We showed Japan what we could do the first time and they still didn't surrender. Wouldn't responsibility for the second strike lay squarely on the Japanese leadership, no matter HOW you look at it?

[vortigern]

We haven't had any problems with them since we nuked them, have we?

[MARKUSPRIME]

I agree. My grandfather lost his left arm and was partially blind from shrapnel fighting on Iwo Jima.

[Godebert]

"Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable."

We should drop another one on Tokyo just to teach the little Nip a lesson.