Facebook post — 28 April 2015

facebook 28 April 2015

The 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings is this year: http://www.nhk.or.jp/hiroshima/hibaku70/english/

The Japanese Prime Minister just ate dinner with the American president: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/27/politics/obama-shinzo-abe-japan-white-house-state-dinner/

How do people move on? What gives them the power to forgive and forget?

10 comments

Asheesh AgrawalWell, I can sense Hide
Farhan HaqueGreed, I guess. Hide
Sid MallickIt's 70 years.... any point holding on the grudge? Do we hold it against the brits for the millions of dead during the colonial period? Hide
Sid MallickDo you not go and see all the mafia funded bollywood movies very well knowing that that's funding their next riots/terror plots in Bombay? The Japanese didn't have a problem 30 years back while they were booming selling everything from pens to cars to the US. ... same holds for turkey.... they ought to accept that there was ethnic cleansing 100 years ago and it was a genocide.... . It's like saying no self righteous Jewish person would buy a German made car for they were a part of the nazi war machinery..... Hide
Sid MallickOops...goodwins law...darn it... Hide
Asheesh AgrawalAsheesh Agrawal · 11yWell, I can senseLikeHide
Farhan HaqueFarhan Haque · 11yGreed, I guess.LikeHide
Sid MallickSid Mallick · 11yIt's 70 years.... any point holding on the grudge? Do we hold it against the brits for the millions of dead during the colonial period?LikeHide
Sid MallickSid Mallick · 11yDo you not go and see all the mafia funded bollywood movies very well knowing that that's funding their next riots/terror plots in Bombay? The Japanese didn't have a problem 30 years back while they were booming selling everything from pens to cars to the US. ... same holds for turkey.... they ought to accept that there was ethnic cleansing 100 years ago and it was a genocide..... It's like saying no self righteous Jewish person would buy a German made car for they were a part of the nazi war machinery.....LikeHide
Sid MallickSid Mallick · 11yOops...goodwins law...darn it...LikeHide