Abe Denounced in Person at Nagasaki 70th Nuclear Destruction Memorial Service

Seventy years ago today, on Aug. 9, three days after the first use of a nuclear weapon over Hiroshima, U.S. President Harry Truman and his British controllers incinerated another 70,000 civilians or so in Nagasaki, for no military purpose, aiming only at showing the world that the U.S. and the British were insane enough to commit genocide as a policy.

Today, survivors of that atrocity, speaking at the official ceremony, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe present, described the horror of that destruction, and then turned to Abe, demanding that he end his mad push to restore Japan’s militarist past, joining in the U.S. preparations for war against China with the intent to join in such a war of extinction.

The mayor of Nagasaki, like the mayor of Hiroshima three days ago, directly called on Abe to listen to the overwhelming voice of the population against his “collective defense” policy and the dumping of the pacifist constitution.

Then, a survivor of the Nagasaki attack, 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi, described the horrible injuries he had suffered, and then turned to face Abe, who was sitting nearby. “Do not meddle with Japan’s pacifist constitution,” he said, evoking an eruption of loud applause in the audience, according to all the press accounts. BBC wrote: “Mr. Abe looked straight ahead, showing no emotion.”