Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa reacted angrily to statements by the US Congress justifying the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on May 11.
At a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 10, Kamikawa said, “(These comments) were inappropriate and completely unacceptable.”
He then arranged for letters to be sent to the American side explaining Japan’s position.
The reason for the reaction emerged at a meeting of the US Senate Appropriations Committee on May 8, where a possible delay in the supply of weapons to Israel in its war against Hamas was discussed.
Lindsey Graham (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation), a Republican from South Carolina, asked General Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “Would you support dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? during World War II?”
Brown seemed puzzled by this question, so Graham (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) asked, “In retrospect, do you think the United States’ decision to drop two atomic bombs on the Japanese was correct?”
Brown responded, “I’ll say it stopped the world war.”
Graham (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) asked the same question to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who responded: “I agree with the president.”
At a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the lower house of the Japanese Diet on May 10, Kamikawa was asked about the exchange of views at a meeting of the US Senate committee.
She said: “We cannot agree that Senator Graham (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) has raised the issue of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki while discussing the current situation in the Middle East.”
Noting that atomic bombings had claimed “many precious lives and caused untold suffering in the form of disease and disability,” he stated that “the use of nuclear weapons is incompatible with the spirit of humanitarianism, which is the ideological basis of international law, due to its enormous destructive capacity and lethal force.”
Although he did not provide details about what the documents contained, Kamikawa said the letters were sent to the office of Graham (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation), as well as to the United States government.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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