Word: hiroshimas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broadcast on Telebe Setouchi, a Japanese network, showed the students working, visiting the Hiroshima memorial and relaxing at Japanese karaoke nightclubs...
Besides the hurricane, questions about the bombing of Hiroshima and the stock market crash of 1929 drew the most involved responses...
While the reference to the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew loud applause from the assembled factory workers, it attracted swift condemnation from the White House and many of Hollings' congressional colleagues -- not to mention Japanese survivors of the 1945 blasts. The Japanese government said little about the remark when it was widely reported in Tokyo. But the Senator was unrepentant. "I'm defending against America bashing," he said. "When you defend America, they want you to apologize...
...This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...
When the atomic bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki it was with the firm knowledge that massive destruction--the extermination of society--was a legitimate mode of military action. With 200,000 dead Japanese in the first week, the bombs brought victory...