| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/07/18, 10:34 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Read through this article to where the author talks about the possibility of China maneuvering to drive wedges between Japan and the US, creating a dangerous menange a' trois China. Scroll down for the video.
Uotsuri Island, one of disputed Senkaku islands in the East China Sea
The Japanese original is vague on who "we" is, but the English translation tactfully refers to mankind as a whole. Families come from all over Japan in a pilgrimage to visit the peace shrine. They look through the Cenotaph to the "A-Dome", the old Industrial Promotion Hall. This six-story building that was directly below the blast, 600 metres above, and for that reason survived as a gaunt half-wrecked structure when almost everything else was flattened instantly for a radius of two kilometres.
They walk through the museum in total silence learning the details of what happened on August 1945, and the gruesome aftermath. The learn about the 2000 degree heat shock that lasted three seconds and incinerated anybody in the epicentre instantly, but left those in the suburbs to die more slowly
with burnt skin hanging from their bodies.
They read the day-by-day diaries of the survivors, and the second shock of radiation a week or so later as they came out in a rash of purple spots, and started to vomit their inner organs. Some 140,000 were dead within five months, mostly civilians, including Korean and Chinese forced labourers.
This is what the Japanese are brought up on, so different from the "Patriotic Education" campaign in China for the last twenty years. Beijing's policy has whipped up revanchist hatred against the Japanese for the sins of the 1930s and 1940s, no doubt to divert popular wrath away from a Communist Party tarnished by corruption.
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 Map of the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands
Message edited by inbluevt - Thursday, 2013/07/18, 11:02 AM |
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