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How Japan and the U.S. Remember World War II

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday May 12 2016, @03:37AM   
from the history-is-in-the-culture-of-the-teller dept.

AnonTechie writes:

An interesting phone interview with Carol Gluck, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University.

"The Japanese ignore everything before Hiroshima and the Americans ignore everything after Nagasaki."

On Tuesday, President Obama announced his decision to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in August 1945. Obama will specifically visit Memorial Park, which commemorates the event; he will be the first sitting American president to do so, although he does not plan to offer any sort of apology. The bombing of Hiroshima killed around 100,000 people; three days later, tens of thousands more were killed after the United States bombed Nagasaki.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/05/the_u_s_and_japan_have_very_different_memories_of_world_war_ii.html

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• Re:This is because of the GHQ War Guilt Propaganda(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday May 12 2016, @04:34PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Thursday May 12 2016, @04:34PM (#345301)

  Read all about August Landmesser [csmonitor.com], the man in that photograph.

  I actually had it somewhat wrong: He wasn't killed for it. However, the Jewish woman who he was trying to marry died in a concentration camp, and he was drafted and MIA.

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  "Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin

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