I just found out that today is the anniversary for the bombing of Hiroshima...
Still on the subject of history..how do we judge when atonement is enough...
Japan...so conflicted..
where they slaughtered us mercilessly in the past..
when i was little...like 12...read a history book on the japanese invasion..and i was so scared. I had my mom promise me that we would leave singapore and move to a tiny indian village..
and it has taken me years to stop dreaming the dream..
everyone has a recurrent dream, running away, falling down from a cliff....
mine..is escaping from japanese soldiers who want to cut my head off with a samurai sword...hilarious i know..
but when you have to put up with visual decapitation scenes for years..you dont see the humour in it all
and Iris Chang...The Rape of NAnking...that is another book that defines it for me..
there i read abt 2 officers who had killing competitions..where they killed randoms and tallied numbers..and there were pictures of hanging heads..and tales of how the river turned red with blood.
Stories of comfort women..women who were taken from what they knew.their families, husbands and children..who existed to serve soldiers.....
and now the government denies their existence.....
A reign of terror in so many countries..death railways in thailand...murder in malaysia and singapore...
and now..we are supposed to forget them and forgive them...
Would it be politically incorrect of me to say that i personally cant do that

My family wasnt ripped apart by them, we were left alone..
but i dont see what they have done to deserve our forgiveness
they refuse to apologise..for crimes that they should be begging for atonement for
and they release history textbooks glorifying their nationalistic past
and their prime minister goes to visit Tojo every year..
no one wants them to be eternal apologists..that isnt happening to germany..
but to take responsibility for their actions..
Yes Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have never been bombed...
and maybe sorry doesnt really matter in this case..its so easy to say it
and maybe it doesnt mean anything