#Hiroshima

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Ishiuchi Miyako: 'Hiroshima' (2007)

Since 2007 Miyako has been photographing abandoned Japanese garments from victims of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.

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If you’re not aware, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberately not bombed with the firebombs that destroyed most of Tokyo and other Japanese cities in 1945 because they were two of a number of cities deliberately selected as locations for atomic bombings.

They wanted a “pristine” test of their new weapon on a previously undamaged city.

The US knew those cities were full of civilian refugees when they bombed them. They had herded them there.

Parallels, huh?

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Miyajima, Japan

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Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima

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RIKEN YAMAMOTO HIROSHIMA NISHI FIRE STATION, 2000 Hiroshima, Japan Image © Tomio Ohashi

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今年の桜4

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HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

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"First picture of results of atomic bomb." From the front page for the Gainesville Daily Register, Texas, August 13, 1945.

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On This Day In History

August 6th, 1945: The first nuclear weapon used in warfare, the "Little Boy', is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It kills 70,000 people instantly and tens of thousands over the years.

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György Korga (1935-2002)—Red Feathers. Remembering Hiroshima [oil on fibreboard, 1965]

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Idk if this is a hot take or not but I feel the need to stress: no discussion about the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki has any reason to mention Japanese war crimes. Literally nothing a government does justifies killing random people who happen to live in that government's territory. It is genocidal rhetoric to act as if a group of people can do something that justifes killing massive amounts of them.

There is an idea in western culture that we can judge warcrimes based on how "good" of a group were the victims. This dates back to the conquest of the Aztec empire, where things that horrified Europeans at the time where justified by bringing up terrible things done by the Aztec government. People defend the Spanish empire on those grounds today. It's so pervasive that it'll even come up when people are talking agaisnt genocides (they'll bring up native groups being peaceful as the reason why westward expansion was bad, as if them being human wasn't enough).

Would Russia be justified in nuking the US because the US government committed warcrimes in the middle east? (Actually speaking of Russia, you'll see this rhetoric when tankies bring up Ukraine's nazi problem.) Because if not, and you think hiroshima and nagasaki were justified, then you have to give a reason other then the fact that you judge the lives of westerners and nonwesterners differently.

If someone brings up crimes a group committed, real or imaginary, when arguing about atrocities committed agaisnt them, they've already told you that they don't believe people of that group have rights, that they believe anything can be done to them if it's justified.

There is no crime someone can commit, that's so bad that it justifies killing a stranger who happens to speak the same language as them.

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