“If the American army had not dropped the atomic bombs, many more people, not only American but also Japanese, would have been killed. The dropping of the atomic bombs was right.”
I heard this opinion expressed by Americans many times last May when I was in New York. I can’t agree this. The Japanese apparently committed grave war crimes, opened fire on unarmed people, killed many Asian people, and intentionally delayed accepting the defeat in the war, an act that made for many additional Japanese war victims. If the American army had not dropped the atomic bombs, more people might have been killed, but it was not right.
There were many people, but not Emperor Hirohito, under the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were ordinary people who worked for a living, delivered babies, and lived with their families. The value of their lives can’t be compared with those of others. Moreover, Japanese people were not the only ones killed, but also prisoners of the allied forces and many Koreans who had been evicted from their hometowns by the Japanese imperial army. Most of them were killed. The atomic bombs were dropped on the common people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No reasons can justify the bloodshed of civilians.
You should know the facts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Do you know “Barefoot Gen”, a cartoon story of Hiroshima? It was drawn by Keiji Nakazawa, who was one of the atomic bomb survivors. The time was 1945. Gen, a Japanese boy, was a second grade student in Hiroshima. The atomic bomb killed his father, older sister, younger brother, and newborn sister. He struggled against difficulties without losing hope. An English version of the story is available and has been made into anime. You can watch it on YouTube. “Barefoot Gen” will give you an idea about life in Hiroshima.
If you have a clear image of war’s victims, those who have the same right to live as you do, you can’t drop any bombs on them. Humanity must abolish war.
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