Hiroshima and Japan
Hiroshima and Japan
Hiroshima as History:Some
Preliminary Thoughts
History did not end in 1945, just as it did not end in 1989, when Francis Fukuyama announced history's demise by noting democracy's victory in the Cold War with the breakup of Soviet influence in eastern Europe. Although nuclear tensions did not end history in 1989, one would surely be forgiven for concluding that history did indeed end when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. …
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…Never shall it happen again" and the postwar Japanese governments are allowed to hide the existence of a strong nationalism behind their "peace agendas," then history will remain a cruel hoax not only for those Japanese who were in Hiroshima in 1945, but for Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and others who are forced to suffer Hiro-shima once again. It is only in this more precise sense that I will readily join in the cry, "No more Hiroshimas."
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