This chapter examines how demonstrations by American citizens questioning atomic bombings and indiscriminate air raids were deliberately ignored by both Japanese and U.S. media.

However, the newspapers the following day, both in the United States and Japan, made no mention of the demonstration at all.
2016-12-12
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Everyone who reads this chapter will again know that the correctness of my argument has been proven one hundred percent.
To begin with, the atomic bomb represents the largest-scale massacre of civilians.
Many lives were also taken in air raids on major cities, beginning with the Tokyo air raids.
The air raids against Germany were also massive.
It was long regarded as established theory that these actions were necessary to bring the war to an early end, but that view appears to have been significantly revised.
Fukui.
The British philosopher A. C. Grayling states in his book Were the Strategic Bombing and the Atomic Bomb Really Necessary? that one of the greatest war crimes was the indiscriminate bombing of Japan and Germany by Britain and the United States.
The Hamburg air raid of 1943 was the first large-scale indiscriminate bombing, yet the outcome of the war had not been decided at that point.
Even so, Grayling argues that indiscriminate bombing is impermissible.
At the stage in 1945 when the outcome of the war had already been determined, there was all the more no justification whatsoever for killing civilians.
What, he asks, is the difference from 9.11.
As Mr. Ezaki suggests, there may be Chinese operations behind the revival of accusations regarding Japan’s war crimes, but from the standpoint of the general American psyche as well, in order to justify indiscriminate bombing including the atomic bombings, the only argument available is that Japan was worse, and therefore it could not be helped.
Ezaki.
In December 1991, I went to cover the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, held at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
On the road outside the memorial, young Americans were holding a demonstration.
The banners they carried read “Remember Tokyo,” “Remember Hiroshima,” and “Remember Nagasaki.”
They were protesting that although it is said that the U.S.–Japan war that began with Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was justified for America, even worse acts were committed in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and asking how this issue should be addressed.
Their way of thinking was, if anything, liberal.
However, the newspapers the following day, both in the United States and Japan, made no mention of the demonstration at all.
It was likely not reported because it was inconvenient, but in America, in this case, there are also people who pursue the war responsibility of the Democratic administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
To be continued.