Friendship Quote by Paul Virilio

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ”

— David Dellinger

“Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about…

— Ronald Schaffer

“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the…

— James Bradley

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

— Anonymous

“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by…

— James Mahaffey

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I…

— Linda Hoaglund

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world…

— Laurence Yep

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami