do you think the japanese are bitter about hiroshima?

Question

or are we like, "even"? for some reason that I have no idea about. The japanese people I meet don't seem bitter but I think it would still be in the back of my mind, if I had been from that country. It seems like a horrible thing to do to kill all those civilians, even in a time of war.

how is it decided, whether things are "even"?

Answer 1

Are the Americans bitter by Pearl Harbor? 2 words Common Sense, try it you might like it.

Answer 2

If they're bitter it's mis-directed. The Japanese High Command and the Emperor had more than ample opportunity to surrender and yet they chose the " to the last person standing " position and killed a lot of their own people in the process.
The fire-bombing of Tokyo in May of 1945 killed more people than Hiroshima did.
A reasonable government would have surrendered right then and there and yet they didn't. A reasonable government would have surrended after the first A bomb was dropped ; the Japanese Government required a second bomb to convince them of the futily of continuing to fight.
We did the right thing and if the Japanese feel bitter about it ,tell them to go to the graves of their ancestors and ask them "What the hell were you thinking ?

Answer 3

I am not sure if Hiroshima even made up for Pearl Harbour. At least Hiroshima was an act of war enacted in wartime upon a declared enemy. Japan has absolutely no excuse for Pearl Harbour.

I doubt that anybody has guilt trips or bitternesses because of war or else everybody would. Not just us, or the Japanese, but the Germans, most Europeans, the Vietnamese, Korean and South African to name just some of the war-mongers of past couple of centuries. After all do the residents of the north and south states of America have bitter memories of each other?

Answer 4

There is always furious bitterness in war. The Toshiba Corporation is the new great power house in electric generation and proves you can take something horrible and turn into incredibly productive wealth. Japan has turned something bad into a scientific enterprise and will reap the rewards forever.

Answer 5

Do you think that the Chinese are bitter about the massacre of Nankin by the Japs in December-January 1937 ? According to different sources they killed between 100,000 and 300,000 people in some weeks. Hiroshima nuclear explosion killed 140,000 people. So the Japs better shut up about their dead because they started the massacres....

Answer 6

dunno if theyre bitter, but htey have decided that war is horrible and the constitution does not allow japan to attack any other nation except in self defence, and theyve set up a small Japanese Self Defence Fore or something and scrapped the army

Answer 7

the way I see it is that all those people who decided to drop the bomb are either gone or pretty old, same for the Japanese leaders who refused to surrender
so why be angry towards a country if we're not the same people who made the decision?

Answer 8

i think its been alongtime now and maybe the older generation or people who may have been affected by it personally....i never meet any japanese people who where bitter...

Answer 9

there are many today who fought in WWII who are bitter but then as they get older there are those who are trying their best to forgive but not forget the lessons learned.

Answer 10

America will have its day... Bin Laden was just a scratch compared to what we have coming... Like Rome baby.... Just like Rome