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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

28Aug

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Japan, USA

Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

BY HENRY GIROUX Detail from a U.S. Air Force map of Hiroshima, pre-bombing, circles drawn at 1,000 foot intervals radiating out from ground zero, the site directly under the explosion. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). On Monday August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people instantly. 70% of the city was destroyed. A few days later on August 9th, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people.[2] The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher than the American estimates, indicating that it was close to a half million. Many died not only because of lack of medical help, but also from radioactive rain. In the immediate aftermath, the incineration...

Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget

19Aug

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Human Rights, Japan, USA

Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget

By Bruce K. Gagnon Global Research, All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). US President Harry Truman ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Days later (August 9) Washington dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. Official ...

A Hard Rain Did Fall: a Big Win in Court for Hiroshima Victims

6Aug

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Japan, USA

A Hard Rain Did Fall: a Big Win in Court for Hiroshima Victims

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER “Thirsty woman catching black rain in her mouth” de Akiko Takakura/WikimediaCommons. Just weeks before the 2021 commemoration of the August 6, 1945 US atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima, a Japanese court ruled that victims of the radioactive “black rain” who were living beyond the officially recognized contamination zone at the time, should be included in the group considered bomb “survivors” or “Hibakusha” and receive the same benefits. A Hiroshima high court acknowledged in its July 14, 2021 ruling that many more people suffered as a result of exposure to “black rain” than have hitherto been recognized as victims. “Black rain” was described in a CNN story as a “mixture of fallout particles from the explosion, carbon residue from cit...

Rape of Japanese Men and Women After World War II

25Jul

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Japan

Rape of Japanese Men and Women After World War II

In one raid on Tokyo alone, in one night, an estimated 75,000 to 200,000 people, mostly women and children, were burned to death. By Jonas E. Alexis Alexis: In response to the previous article, I received a number of messages from a reader positing the claim that “court history is mostly correct, with omissions, following Perry/Tokyo in 1856 were Rothschild, silk for arms traders, selling outdated British ships and artillery to Japan to start east war to distract Balkin war.” I simply could not hold my laughter precisely because “court history” has been largely wrong, particularly when it comes to examining World War II. I sent that reader just a number of scholarly sources to peruse in order to contextualize what was happening in Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century,[1]...

US Military Exposed 600,000 to Toxins in Japan and Micronesia — and Hid It

7Apr

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Japan, USA

US Military Exposed 600,000 to Toxins in Japan and Micronesia — and Hid It

A protester holds a placard saying "No more U.S. Bases" in front of a cement truck outside the U.S. military construction site in Nago, Okinawa, on November 5, 2019. Protesters demand reduced U.S. military bases in Okinawa as the prefecture marked 47 years since reversion to Japan this year. BYJon Reinsch, TruthoutPUBLISHEDMarch 10, 2021SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email READING LISTPOLITICS & ELECTIONSManchin’s Objection to Infrastructure Bill May Be Motivated by Corporate DonorsECONOMY & LABORBiden’s Domestic Spending Plan Is Welcome, But More Military Spending Isn’tENVIRONMENT & HEALTHWhy I Cut Ties With Insurance Giant Liberty MutualPRISONS & POLICINGResidents of Minneapolis Suburb Rise Up Against Police Killing of Daunte WrightECONOMY &...

4Sep

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Iran, Japan, USA

The Iranian view of Hiroshima: Beyond anti-US ideology?

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/08/29/the-iranian-view-of-hiroshima-beyond-anti-us-ideology/ by: Clément Therme and Banafsheh Keynoush The use of the memory of Hiroshima as a political weapon against the US, a country that Iran says has undermined its sovereignty since World War II, is a recurring theme in Iranian media. During a visit to Tehran by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2019, the Iranian daily Farhikhtegan carried a picture of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear blast—a reference to America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war. “How Can You Trust A War Criminal, Mr. Abe?” the newspaper asked in dual English and Persian headlines. Iranian films screened in Hiroshima On the whole, the memory of Hiroshima is regar...

Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (US, Australia, India, Japan)

30Aug

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China, India, Japan, USA

Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (US, Australia, India, Japan)

Intent on Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? By Andrew Korybko The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the latter’s recognition of Beijing last year as the legitimate government of China, which could dangerously plunge this underdeveloped nation back into a state of civil conflict that could then be exploited by the Quad as a proxy war for “containing” Chinese influence in the South Pacific through “Balkanization”. From The Global Periphery To The Center Of Attention The South Pacific, long regarded as a far-flung region that’s largely irrelevant to all major countries apart from nearby Aust...

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled

22Aug

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C.I.A, Japan, USA

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled

by ROBERT JACOBS – RAN ZWIGENBERG A photograph of Hiroshima seen from a US airplane after the attack, autographed by Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets. In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent months and years. The American narrative of the nuclear attacks was formalized in a piece written by former Secretary of War Henry Stimson in Harper’s in 1947. Stimson wrote that the use of nuclear weapons ended the war, and in making an invasion of the Japanese home islands unnecessary, saved mi...

US Approves Sale Of 105 F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets To Japan

15Jul

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Japan, USA

US Approves Sale Of 105 F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets To Japan

The United States announced Thursday that it has approved the sale of 105 F-35 stealth fighter aircraft to Japan for an estimated $23.11 billion. Japan had asked to buy 63 F-35A, the traditional version of the electronics-laden fighter aircraft, and 42 F-35B, the short-takeoff and vertical-landing version for aircraft carriers, the State Department said in a statement. Washington gave its green light to the transaction, which will improve “the security of a major ally” in the Asia-Pacific region, the statement noted. “It is vital to US national interest to assist Japan in developing and maintaining a strong and effective self-defense capability,” the State Department added. Japan’s 2020/2021 defense budget is a record $50.3 billion, aimed at funding purchases of fighter jets an...

Japan confirms scrapping US missile defence system

27Jun

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Japan

Japan confirms scrapping US missile defence system

Japan has scrapped the deployment of a multi-billion-dollar US anti-missile system, the government confirmed Thursday, days after saying the program had been suspended. Interceptors for the Aegis Ashore system were to be placed in two regions under the costly and controversial program. But the government reversed course under pressure from local residents concerned about the risks posed by a missile defence system in their backyard. “The National Security Council discussed this matter and reached the conclusion that the deployment of Aegis Ashore in Akita and Yamaguchi is to be rescinded,” Defence Minister Taro Kono told a meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. “I want to deeply apologise that it has come to this.” Later Thursday, Kono said Tokyo and Washington were ...