NHK official: Japan will never forget US nuclear attacks

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NHK official: Japan will never forget US nuclear attacks
By Wu Jin, August 7, 2014

Japan will never forget the humiliation caused by the U.S. nuclear attacks, wrote Naoki Hyakuta, the novelist and member of the operating committee of the Nippon Broadcasting System (NHK), one of Japan's biggest TV networks, Japanese website Topic News reported today (Aug. 7).

Hyakuta made his remark in a local social website on Wednesday, when the 69th anniversary of the attacks was observed.

According to Hyakuta, the nuclear attacks, in which the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945 in order to force Japan to surrender in World War II, was no better than a massacre.

"They killed 100,000 innocent civilians, including women and children…This was absolutely a massacre! We Japanese will never forget it!" he wrote.

Hyakuta also noted that he didn't buy the notion that the U.S. observed restraint in not raiding Kyoto and Nara Prefecture so that many historical buildings could be preserved.

"The Americans didn't raid Kyoto because they had planned to drop an atomic bomb there, and they didn't bomb Nara Prefecture because it was so sparsely populated," he wrote on the social website.

Hyakuta was criticized for his public denial of the Nanjing Massacre earlier this year. His comments, which accused people protesting Japan's approval of the limited exercise of the right of collective self-defense of only considering China's interests, drew scrutiny and sarcasm from Japanese internet users last month.

U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy declined an interview with NHK early this year because of inappropriate speeches made by Hyakuta and Katsuto Momii, president of NHK.

A right-wing activist who is close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Hyakuta was appointed to NHK's decision-making board by the Prime Minister.

 

[cirr]

Never forget and forgive。

That's probably what the guy has in mind。

 

[zakir500]

I think, Japan should attack on US as the result of second world war.

 

[Jlaw]

@Nihonjin1051 . Would like a Japanese member's comments on the two bombs dropped on Japan.

 

[Aepsilons]

I've said my peace in @TruthSeeker 's thread. Thank you for your kind consideration.

 

[Europa]

strangely radhabinod pal kept weird silence to oppose the use of nukes, perhaps, verbal articulation of protest wasn't possible at that time.

 

[C130]

just like we won't forget about Pearl Harbor
just like the Chinese won't forget the massacres in China
just like the people of South East Asian won't forget being occupied and forced into slavery/labor
can go on and on
tragedies happened it's war
it's the past
we are closest allies
this is only to stir up emotions and create tension.

 

[Jlaw]

just like we won't forget about Pearl Harbor
just like the Chinese won't forget the massacres in China
just like the people of South East Asian won't forget being occupied and forced into slavery/labor
can go on and on
tragedies happened it's war
it's the past
we are closest allies
this is only to stir up emotions and create tension.

For now because US is stronger militarily than Japan. Should that ever change in the future, you guys will face the full vengeance of the samurai spirit.

 

[Superboy]

Methinks Japan will give the US a pretty good fight in WW3. Japan now has almost twice the population it had at the start of WW2.

just like we won't forget about Pearl Harbor
just like the Chinese won't forget the massacres in China
just like the people of South East Asian won't forget being occupied and forced into slavery/labor
can go on and on
tragedies happened it's war
it's the past
we are closest allies
this is only to stir up emotions and create tension.

Using atom bombs is a no no. Japan is the ONLY country in the history of HUMANITY to have got bombed by atom bombs. This is insult. This is humiliation.

Japanese soldiers in China ONLY killed those who resisted. Americans did the same in Iraq. In China and Iraq, people shot each other with guns. They were fair fights. The US bombed Japan with atom bombs, which was completely unfair.

 

[C130]

For now because US is stronger militarily than Japan. Should that ever change in the future, you guys will face the full vengeance of the samurai spirit.

Methinks Japan will give the US a pretty good fight in WW3. Japan now has almost twice the population it had at the start of WW2.




Using atom bombs is a no no. Japan is the ONLY country in the history of HUMANITY to have got bombed by atom bombs. This is insult. This is humiliation.

Japanese soldiers in China ONLY killed those who resisted. Americans did the same in Iraq. In China and Iraq, people shot each other with guns. They were fair fights. The US bombed Japan with atom bombs, which was completely unfair.

not sure if serious

 

[Jlaw]

Methinks Japan will give the US a pretty good fight in WW3. Japan now has almost twice the population it had at the start of WW2.




Using atom bombs is a no no. Japan is the ONLY country in the history of HUMANITY to have got bombed by atom bombs. This is insult. This is humiliation.

Japanese soldiers in China ONLY killed those who resisted. Americans did the same in Iraq. In China and Iraq, people shot each other with guns. They were fair fights. The US bombed Japan with atom bombs, which was completely unfair.

BS.
Japs raped any female that still can breathe and killed any Chinese they wanted.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

just like we won't forget about Pearl Harbor
just like the Chinese won't forget the massacres in China
just like the people of South East Asian won't forget being occupied and forced into slavery/labor
can go on and on
tragedies happened it's war
it's the past
we are closest allies
this is only to stir up emotions and create tension.

May as well add the Germans in for all the Allied carpet bombing.
Suspected World War II bomb detonates in Germany, killing one - CNN.com

 

[zxmint]

strangely radhabinod pal kept weird silence to oppose the use of nukes, perhaps, verbal articulation of protest wasn't possible at that time.

Our Japanese friend here said that common Germans need no apology for WWII cuz you did not work for NAZI in another thread. Do you agree with him? It is quite different from what I knew about Germans' mainstream attitudes.

Methinks Japan will give the US a pretty good fight in WW3. Japan now has almost twice the population it had at the start of WW2.




Using atom bombs is a no no. Japan is the ONLY country in the history of HUMANITY to have got bombed by atom bombs. This is insult. This is humiliation.

Japanese soldiers in China ONLY killed those who resisted. Americans did the same in Iraq. In China and Iraq, people shot each other with guns. They were fair fights. The US bombed Japan with atom bombs, which was completely unfair.

You are absolutely wrong. Japs killed every one in their sights in China, no matter if they had weapons in hands or not, and they raped any female from infants to 80's. You can dig out human skulls under every square inches of soil in Nanjiang. Sounds ridiculous? If not this ridiculous, we Chinese would not have so strong impression on Japs other than any other countries which invaded us before. I know that some people thinking Chinese need to show more forgiveness and let it go, that is because you and your countrymen had never suffered that and no victims can possibly have the chance to forgive if the criminal don't apologize.

 

[Europa]

Our Japanese friend here said that common Germans need no apology for WWII cuz you did not work for NAZI in another thread. Do you agree with him? It is quite different from what I knew about Germans' mainstream attitudes.

@Götterdämmerung would be the right person to answer, he's part of the mainstream

 

[zxmint]

@Götterdämmerung would be the right person to answer, he's part of the mainstream

Well, fair enough then. THX