A ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki is held in front of the Peace Statue on Friday morning. Photo: KYODO
Japan Today: Nagasaki observes 74th anniversary of A-bombing
Nagasaki marked the 74th anniversary Friday of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in World War II, with Mayor Tomihisa Taue calling at the annual memorial ceremony on the Japanese government to immediately sign a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons.
"As the only country in the world to have experienced the devastation caused by nuclear weapons, Japan must sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as soon as possible," Taue said in the annual declaration.
The mayor had urged the central government to sign the international treaty at the two previous annual ceremonies, but this year he used a stronger and more direct expression.
The treaty was adopted in July 2017 by 122 U.N. members but is not yet in force as it has not been ratified by the required 50 states. Japan has refused to sign the treaty along with other countries under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, as have the world's nuclear weapons states.
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In 4 months it will be the 82nd anniversary of the Rape of Nanking.
ReplyDelete30,000 to 300,000 people died.
Will the Japaneses light one candle?
Total killed from Hiroshima and Nagasaki was 129,000–226,000.
So the Chinese death tolls and the Japanese death tolls are comparable except for the fact that the Japanese started the war and the Chinese did not.
The American POWs Still Waiting for an Apology From Japan 70 Years Later
https://time.com/3334677/pow-world-war-two-usa-japan/
"The 140,000 allied prisoners of war captured by the Japanese during World War II endured horrific cruelties and a comparatively high percentage did not survive.
While the death rate of POWs in German camps was about 4 percent, it is generally agreed that the allied POW death rate in Japanese camps was about 27 percent"
- Japan Times
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/prisoners-of-war-of-the-japanese-1939-1945
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ReplyDeleteAnd later this year we'll mark the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Nuff said.
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