Japan criticizes statements by American officials justifying the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs
Tokyo, May 13 / WAM / Japan criticized statements by American officials justifying the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, and the governors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki expressed their strong dissatisfaction with these statements, which they considered “inappropriate and completely unacceptable.”
Kamikawa said that the Japanese government sent letters to the Americans explaining Japan’s position.
General Charles Q. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had justified, in a session of the US Congress on May 8, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the grounds that they had ended World War II.
At a session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Japanese House of Representatives, Kamikawa affirmed that “the use of nuclear weapons is not compatible with the spirit of humanity, which is the ideological basis of international law, due to the enormous destructive capacity and lethal force of these weapons.”
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