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What was left unsaid about the atomic bombings: silence and the politics of commemoration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Wakamiya Yoshibumi
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When Hiroshima commemorated the 65th anniversary of its atomic bombing on Aug. 6, representatives of the United States, Britain and France joined the memorial service for the first time. Their attendance made headlines.

As it happens, in 1948, three years after the bombing, the Hiroshima peace festival, as the ceremony was then known, was attended by a representative of the Allied Forces. I learned this from former Hiroshima Mayor Hiraoka Takashi a few years ago.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 34 , August 2010 , e1
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