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Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent American strikes on Iran with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who ended the Second World War.
“This blow ended the war,” Trump told journalists on Wednesday. “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but it was essentially the same thing.”
About 140,000 people died when the United States abandoned atomic bombs on the two Japanese southern cities in August 1945. Survivors live with psychological trauma and increased risk of cancer to date.
If Trump’s comments “justify the drop in the atomic bomb, it is extremely regrettable for us as a city that has been bombed,” said the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki.
Trump’s comments are “unacceptable,” said Mimaki Toshiyuki, a survivor of the atomic bomb that co -chases the Nobel Peace Prize Defense Group Nihon Hidankyo, according to the public broadcaster NHK.
“I’m really disappointed. All I have is anger,” said another member of the group, Teruko Yokoyama, in a Kyodo report.
The survivors of atomic bombs attacks organized a demonstration in Hiroshima on Thursday, demanding that Trump will withdraw his statement.
Hiroshima legislators also adopted a resolution Thursday rejecting the statements that justify the use of atomic bombs. They also called armed conflicts to settle peacefully.
When asked if Tokyo would file a complaint regarding Trump’s remarks, chief secretary of the cabinet Hayashi Yoshimasa said Japan had repeatedly expressed its position on atomic bombs in Washington.
Trump’s comments on Wednesday came as he postponed on an intelligence report disclosed That said, American strikes on Iran have only resumed its nuclear program for a few months.
Trump had insisted that the strikes “erased” the program and put it “decades” – A complaint supported by CIA director John Ratcliffe.
Japan is the only country in the world to have been struck by a nuclear attack and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are stirring painful memories.
In Hiroshima, a peace flame that symbolizes the country’s opposition to nuclear weapons has been burning since the 1960s while a clock that has had the number of days since the last nuclear attack in the world has been displayed at the entrance to a war museum.
World leaders who visit Hiroshima are also invited to make paper cranes to assert their commitment to peace.
