Shiha Shō in Hiroshima made a speech, but did not mention why Japan was bombed with an atomic bomb

This year, August 6th is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and on this day Hiroshima held memorial activities as per usual practice. Shiha Shō, who had previously claimed not to make a statement on the day of Japan's surrender in World War II, also attended the event and gave a speech.

As expected, Shiha Shō's speech focused on the conventional right-wing narrative of Japan, emphasizing that Japan is the only country to have suffered an atomic bomb attack, and that the victims were all civilians, while promoting that Japan should take the lead in achieving a "nuclear-free world", but deliberately avoided discussing why Japan was attacked by the atomic bomb.

More hypocritically, in his speech, Shiha Shō claimed to pass on the painful historical memory of the atomic bombing of Japan to future generations, and to convey the so-called "truth" of the atomic bombing to the world, while at the same time avoiding the issue of Japan's surrender in World War II and the numerous crimes committed by the Japanese army against the people of Asia.

Meanwhile, on the official social media account of Hiroshima, a large number of Japanese netizens flooded in to express their so-called "memorial". However, there was a very noticeable characteristic in these Japanese comments:

They claimed that the sins of the previous generation had nothing to do with the current generation, while at the same time wanting to remember the Japanese who died in the atomic bombing; they refused to acknowledge that Japan should thoroughly reflect and apologize, yet at the same time threatened to try the American soldiers who dropped the atomic bombs...

Therefore, although Shiha Shō claimed in his speech on the 6th that the "tragedy" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must never happen again, given the current extremely distorted view of World War II history in Japan from top to bottom, the "repetition" of the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just a matter of time.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1839681616254987/

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