Hiroshima A-bomb monument built in Vienna

Thursday 10th September, 09:06 AM JST

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Altria at 01:41 PM JST - 10th September

Didn't happen to see a priceless 18th century violin lying around, did you? Anyone?

Ah well, never mind. I'll keep looking.
BigInJapan at 04:36 PM JST - 10th September

Will it be also to the Korean victims who died in Hiroshima, or only to the pure Japanese ones?
chotto at 04:43 PM JST - 10th September

Why not put a few other monuments around in other Europeanm cities where writers have written about Hiroshima ir Nagasaki?
terebiko at 05:55 PM JST - 10th September

I think the title of the book should be Sadako Wants to Live not The Day of the Bomb. Living in Hiroshima, we hear news like this all the time. Though both were tragic, I still feel that Nagasaki was worse. Perhaps fewer people died there, but the fact that it was so soon after the Hiroshima attack, and that it wasn't even the primary target, make Nagasaki seem much more tragic in my eyes.
OssanAmerica at 09:15 PM JST - 10th September

Will it be also to the Korean victims who died in Hiroshima, or only to >the pure Japanese ones?

They're not special. A-bomb victims include Japanese, Koreans, Allied POWS, everything and everyone.
YuriOtani at 11:15 PM JST - 10th September

OssanAmerica, so true and they are all remembered at the peace shrine at Hiroshima. About Nagasaki, the bomb wiped out an import part of Christianity in Japan. The hidden Christians who kept the faith during the the Shogun purges and repressions. The Americans did no thinking about their targets, am surprised the Imperial Palace survived the war.
OssanAmerica at 11:57 PM JST - 10th September

Yuriotani

The targets were considered extensively. Remember that we did not have many A-bombs. Hiroshima was chosen for its naval facilities. Nagasaki was a last-minute change in plans as the industrial Kokura was suppose to be the target but heavy cloud cover and poor visibility forced a change of target.
NeoJamal at 12:16 AM JST - 11th September

Nagasaki was a last-minute change in plans as the industrial Kokura was suppose to be the target but heavy cloud cover and poor visibility forced a change of target.

Yes, if you can't target the military installation, bomb a civilian target.
OssanAmerica at 01:45 AM JST - 11th September

Yes, if you can't target the military installation, bomb a civilian >target.

Such a silly approach to targeting was not applied to a project as critical to the US as the A-bombs. Nagasaki was on a list of secondary targets because of it's very extensive naval and shipbuilding facilities. That so many civilians died in the A-bombings is the result of several factors, one; the technology back then did not allow for pinpoint bombing, two; the industrial facilities were surrounded by civilians who worked in them, three; we didn't really know what the extent of damage would be, and finally four; we didsn't really care what the extent would be because the US as well as the UK had taken a no-holds-barred policy of bombing military targets with little regard to potential civilian casualties as displayed in the bombing of both German and Japanese cities.
bdiego at 08:02 AM JST - 11th September

Nagasaki was a secondary target. Ironically a far more civilized attack than anything Japan would ever contemplate.
NeoJamal at 09:10 AM JST - 15th September

Nagasaki was a secondary target. Ironically a far more civilized attack than anything Japan would ever contemplate.

Of course, being scorched by a massive heat wave by surprise is far more civilised than being impaled by soldier who's just been chasing you around with a sword. Japan must learn that mass-murder by surprise is the way of civilised nations.
mindovermatter at 08:33 PM JST - 16th September

OssanAmerica They're not special. A-bomb victims include Japanese, Koreans, Allied POWS, everything and everyone.

You must be referring only to this monument in VIENNA..?

Because it's very obvious that the Japanese Monuments (In Japan) are erected for Japanese ONLY, the other than Japanese, that is Other than "Full-Blooded Japanese" monument is located quite a ways away from the REAL one in Hiroshima, it almost requires a GPS to find the O.T.J. monument....

And matter of fact, the monuments and JN gov't didn't even acknowledge the fact that other nationals died in the bombings... It was only something like 10 or 15 years ago that references were included in the parks.