Nakagawa calls U.S. A-bombing of Japan 'an inexcusable crime'

Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has
called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable.

Nakagawa,
policy chief of the ruling LDP, made the comments after visiting the
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a ruling party official said.

The
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would only paraphrase
Nakagawa's comments late Sunday, but Kyodo News agency and a newspaper
quoted him directly.

"The U.S. decision to drop such a thing was
truly unforgivable on humanitarian grounds," the reports quoted
Nakagawa as saying. "Dropping an atomic bomb is a crime."

On Aug.
6, 1945, the U.S. dropped a bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima,
killing at least 140,000 people in the world's first atomic bomb attack.

Three days later, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb, "Fat Man," on Nagasaki. City officials say about 74,000 died

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Interesting. No need to re-fight this battle. The decision was made to use the weapon, and it ended the most brutal war in the history of mankind. Regrettable, but necessary. No hand-wringing from this pundit.