Japan condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for comparing Iran’s recent strike against Iran with bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“This blow ended the war,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I don’t want to take Hiroshima’s example as an example, I don’t want to take Nagasaki’s example as an example, but it’s essentially the same thing.”
(In August 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs in two southern Japanese cities, about 140,000 people died.
Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said that if Trump’s remarks “justify the drop of the atomic bomb, it would be a very regrettable for us as a bombed city.”
According to public broadcaster NHK, Trump’s comments are “unacceptable”.
“I’m really disappointed. All I have is anger,” Teruko Yokoyama, another member of the group, said in a Kyodo news report.
Survivors of the atomic bomb attack held a protest in Hiroshima on Thursday, demanding that Trump withdraw his statement.
Hiroshima’s lawmakers also passed a resolution on Thursday that refused to prove the use of the atomic bomb. They also called for a peaceful resolution of armed conflict.
When asked whether Tokyo would file a complaint about Trump’s remarks, Cabinet Chief Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa said Japan repeatedly expressed its position on the atomic bomb to Washington.
Trump’s comments on Wednesday are here Delayed leaked intelligence report That said, the U.S. strike against Iran has only restored its nuclear program for a few months.
Trump insists that the strike “destroyed” the plan and put it back “decades” – CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s claim.
Japan is the only country in the world to be hit by a nuclear attack, and the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki stirred painful memories.
On Hiroshima, a flame of peace symbolizing the country’s opposition to nuclear weapons has been burning since the 1960s, while a clock is a day since the last nuclear attack in the world, displayed at the entrance of the War Museum.
World leaders who visited Hiroshima were also asked to make paper cranes to confirm their commitment to peace.
