The US Desecration Of Japanese Children & Women / Documentary Video. The film examines of the uses of atomic bomb blast footage. It unearths footage long suppressed from the National Archives that …More
The US Desecration Of Japanese Children & Women / Documentary Video.
The film examines of the uses of atomic bomb blast footage. It unearths footage long suppressed from the National Archives that shows Japanese victims of the blasts suffering weeks after the bombs had hit. It retells the experience of Japanese documentary film-maker Akira Iwasaki. Music by WWI. Mondo NaGaSaKi. Producer: James Andrew Wagstaff. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States.
HIROSHIMA / WHO DISAGREED WITH THE ATOMIC BOMBING? From the Catholic Church. 2314 "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall pointed out that the use of the bomb was opposed by Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William Leahy, and that the Japanese had been sending out peace feelers for months. Urging exploration of those peace feelers were several Cabinet officers and one ex-president, Herbert Hoover. Instead, they were ignored, and the Enola Gay did its deadly work. In addition, Generals Hap Arnold, Curtis LeMay and William Halsey all reportedly felt the bomb was unnecessary, being either militarily redundant or unnecessarily punitive to an essentially defeated populace. From JOHN McCLOY (Assistant Secretary of War); McCloy quoted in James Reston, Deadline, pg. 500. "I have always felt that if, in our ultimatum to the Japanese government issued from Potsdam [in July 1945], we had referred to the retention of the emperor as a constitutional monarch and had made some reference to the reasonable accessibility of raw materials to the future Japanese government, it would have been accepted. Indeed, I believe that even in the form it was delivered, there was some disposition on the part of the Japanese to give it favorable consideration. When the war was over I arrived at this conclusion after talking with a number of Japanese officials who had been closely associated with the decision of the then Japanese government, to reject the ultimatum, as it was presented. I believe we missed the opportunity of effecting a Japanese surrender, completely satisfactory to us, without the necessity of dropping the bombs." On May 28, 1945, Former President Herbert Hoover visited President Truman and suggested a way to end the Pacific war quickly: "I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." On August 8, 1945, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hoover wrote to Army and Navy Journal publisher Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin, "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary." From William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512. Norman Cousins was a consultant to General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan. Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, "MacArthur's views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed." He continues, "When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor." From Norman Cousins, The Pathology of Power, pg. 65, 70-71.
The film examines of the uses of atomic bomb blast footage. It unearths footage long suppressed from the National Archives that shows Japanese victims of the blasts suffering weeks after the bombs had hit. It retells the experience of Japanese documentary film-maker Akira Iwasaki. Music by WWI. Mondo NaGaSaKi. Producer: James Andrew Wagstaff. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States.
HIROSHIMA / WHO DISAGREED WITH THE ATOMIC BOMBING? From the Catholic Church. 2314 "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall pointed out that the use of the bomb was opposed by Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William Leahy, and that the Japanese had been sending out peace feelers for months. Urging exploration of those peace feelers were several Cabinet officers and one ex-president, Herbert Hoover. Instead, they were ignored, and the Enola Gay did its deadly work. In addition, Generals Hap Arnold, Curtis LeMay and William Halsey all reportedly felt the bomb was unnecessary, being either militarily redundant or unnecessarily punitive to an essentially defeated populace. From JOHN McCLOY (Assistant Secretary of War); McCloy quoted in James Reston, Deadline, pg. 500. "I have always felt that if, in our ultimatum to the Japanese government issued from Potsdam [in July 1945], we had referred to the retention of the emperor as a constitutional monarch and had made some reference to the reasonable accessibility of raw materials to the future Japanese government, it would have been accepted. Indeed, I believe that even in the form it was delivered, there was some disposition on the part of the Japanese to give it favorable consideration. When the war was over I arrived at this conclusion after talking with a number of Japanese officials who had been closely associated with the decision of the then Japanese government, to reject the ultimatum, as it was presented. I believe we missed the opportunity of effecting a Japanese surrender, completely satisfactory to us, without the necessity of dropping the bombs." On May 28, 1945, Former President Herbert Hoover visited President Truman and suggested a way to end the Pacific war quickly: "I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." On August 8, 1945, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hoover wrote to Army and Navy Journal publisher Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin, "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary." From William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512. Norman Cousins was a consultant to General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan. Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, "MacArthur's views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed." He continues, "When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor." From Norman Cousins, The Pathology of Power, pg. 65, 70-71.
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The shogunate and imperial governemt at first supported the Catholic mission and the missionaires, thinking that they would reduce the power of the Buddhist monks, and help trade with Spain and Portugal. However, the Shogunate was also wary of colonialism, seeing that in the Philippines the Spanish had taken power after converting the population. The government increasingly saw Roman Catholicism as …More
The shogunate and imperial governemt at first supported the Catholic mission and the missionaires, thinking that they would reduce the power of the Buddhist monks, and help trade with Spain and Portugal. However, the Shogunate was also wary of colonialism, seeing that in the Philippines the Spanish had taken power after converting the population. The government increasingly saw Roman Catholicism as a threat, and started persecuting Christians. Christianity was banned and those Japanese who refused to abandon their faith were killed. On February 5, 1597, twenty-six Christians--Six European Franciscan missionairies, three Japanese Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen including three young boys--were executed by crucifixion in NAGASAKI. These individuals were raised on crosses and then pierced through with spears. When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne; they cried out with a loud voice,"O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth? Rev. 6:9 
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Genesis 18:22-26 So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous …More
Genesis 18:22-26 So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" And the Lord said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will the spare the whole place for their sake."
God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked, but He would spare the whole for their sake. There is not a war fought in this world today that could claim the same; countries drop bombs with the full knowledge that they are going to kill many people, either deliberately or as collateral damage, who have committed no crime and pose no threat.
The time when soldiers met each other in a battlefield to fight out their differences has ended. Today we have bombs dropped from above, mobile artillery shooting shells, cruise missiles, etc. killing both combatants and civilians alike with little discrimination. At the beginning of the last century most of the casualties of war were soldiers, at the beginning of the 21st century most of the casualties of war are civilians; many of them under the age of 18.
If we cannot fight wars that only target those who pose a true threat, then we must give up on fighting wars; far be it from us to slay the righteous with the wicked.
God Bless,
God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked, but He would spare the whole for their sake. There is not a war fought in this world today that could claim the same; countries drop bombs with the full knowledge that they are going to kill many people, either deliberately or as collateral damage, who have committed no crime and pose no threat.
The time when soldiers met each other in a battlefield to fight out their differences has ended. Today we have bombs dropped from above, mobile artillery shooting shells, cruise missiles, etc. killing both combatants and civilians alike with little discrimination. At the beginning of the last century most of the casualties of war were soldiers, at the beginning of the 21st century most of the casualties of war are civilians; many of them under the age of 18.
If we cannot fight wars that only target those who pose a true threat, then we must give up on fighting wars; far be it from us to slay the righteous with the wicked.
God Bless,