“An American journalist who sneaked into Nagasaki soon after the Japanese city was leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb found a ‘wasteland of war’ and victims moaning from the pain of radiation burns in downtown hospitals.
Censored 60 years ago by the U.S. military, George Weller’s stories from the atom bombed-city surfaced this month in a series of reports in the national Mainichi newspaper.” (Yahoo! News)
I worked for the Mainichi when I lived in Japan in 1971 (and had no influence on the nuclear debate at the paper…). At that time, twenty-five years after the atomic bombings, the topic was still tiptoed around every time I tried engage my hosts on the issue and express my penitence for what my country had done to the Japanese.
