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Last month, US president Obama paid visit to Hiroshima and hugged survivor of the atomic bomb which the U.S. force dropped onto the city. For most Japanese he was very much welcomed because he was the first sitting president who paid visit although he never apologised for the atomic bomb attack. Many people in the world wondered why Japanese are not so much angry with the U.S. for the atomic bomb attacks. There are two major reasons. One is we are the one who started the war attacking Pearl Harbour, and the other is we are the aggressor in that period. Before the war between Japan...

It has been a huge turmoil in Japanese politics. It was caused by Minister of Defense, Mr. Kyuma. In a speech he made at a University in Chiba Prefecture, he said "US dropping of atomic bombs helped Japan end the war and prevent the Soviet Union from entering in Japan, so we have to accept that." After the criticism arose, he apologized and retracted the remark. But still the demand for his...