nuclear bomb on Nagasaki was a crime, says Japanese politician

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6189489.stm

Four words.

One of Japan's most senior politicians has said the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 was impermissible from a humanitarian point of view.

Shoichi Nakagawa, the policy chief of the governing party, said that the use of atomic weapons was a crime.

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Speaking in Nagasaki over the weekend, Mr Nakagawa - a right-winger - said that atomic bombings were a crime. The American decision to drop the atomic bomb was truly impermissible on humanitarian grounds, he said.

He repeated the comments on Monday, telling Reuters news agency: "By dropping two atomic bombs, many people, including ordinary citizens, were killed... I believe that such an act can be called a crime."

The. Rape. Of. Nanking.

[Beowulf]

nuclear bomb on Nagasaki was a crime, says Japanese politician
So was Pearl Harbor, the invasion of Manchuria and the Bataan Death March but I suppose he forgot about those........asshole!

[Incident_command]

Speaking in Nagasaki over the weekend, Mr Nakagawa - a right-winger - said that atomic bombings were a crime.




Not this crap again.

[DesertFox]

Hey, Mr Nakagawa, tell us all about the Rape of Nanking (http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0140277447/sr=1-1/qid=1166498024/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1426118-9814553?ie=UTF8&s=books) (scroll down to the reviews). THEN let's talk war crimes.

[Riverboat]

Shoichi Nakagawa, the policy chief of the governing party, said that the use of atomic weapons was a crime. HE'S RIGHT! QUICK! GO ARREST SOMEONE!

[DeclinetoState]

The Japanese add one word to The Rape of Nanking: Alleged.

They should have I'm-A-Nut-Job (or whatever the President of Iran, who denies the Holocaust, is called) help them rewrite their history, just as he's tried to do in Europe.

[Air-Warrior]

The politicians are really desperate for TV face time in Japan these days eh?

[DesertFox]

I really think they're all trying to figure out which side of the Nanking question they should come out on. It's been in the news off-and-on for the last several years; some have gone to China and apologized, others have vociferously held to the lie that it's all propaganda.

Whoever figures out how to use Nanking best may be the next big power in Japan. It will all come down to how much sorrow to show. From what I've read, the Japs have a real problem with any kind of confession of wrongdoing, since it seems to indict the whole country rather than just individual perps.

[Lubbock]

Hey, Nip. You lost.

Get over it.

[DeclinetoState]

A lot of Japanese probably believe the only way to admit they did something wrong in Nanking is to go and commit suicide. Given that, a dubious denial may seem attractive in comparison.