Flowers and origami cranes are offered May 4 at the newly completed cenotaph in Nagasaki for prisoners of war who died in the city s 1945 atomic bombing. (Shoma Fujiwaki)
NAGASAKI A cenotaph featuring flying cranes, a symbol of peace, was unveiled here May 4 in memory of prisoners of war who perished in the city’s atomic bombing.
About 200 prisoners, mostly British and Dutch, were being held at the Fukuoka POW Camp No. 14 Branch just 1.7 kilometers from ground zero.
Eight POWs are believed to have died that day, Aug. 9, 1945, and many more were injured.
The camp was established on the site of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shipbuilding yard factory not far from Nagasaki train station in 1943.
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The aircraft flew from the 40,500 ton USS Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship off the coast of Ireland.
The Wasp-class vessel’s official Facebook page said: ‘This past week, IWO JIMA conducted operations in the Atlantic Ocean and the crew continued to hone their warfighting skills by holding training and completing a number of drills.
‘Another significant accomplishment is that we have been successful in mitigating COVID onboard and had the opportunity to roll back several of our COVID mitigations.
‘This was truly an all hands effort over the last couple of months by the crew and all embarked personnel.’
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Photo: July 25, 1963, Beijing celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Public domain.
May 4 marks the anniversary of a seminal moment in modern Chinese history. In 1919, the “May 4 movement” broke out a youth-led uprising against the country’s domination by foreign colonial powers. In the following piece written in 2008, Fidel Castro reflects on this and other milestones in China’s long struggle for independence.
The following reflection was published over a two-day period in the Cuban newspaper Granma. It has been translated by ESTI.
Without some basic historical knowledge, the subject I am dealing with could not be understood.
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China is a rival who seems to have learned from Yamamoto.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Yamamoto was right: Japan had to win quickly or not at all. But he was also wrong: by executing his plan to strike Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy guaranteed there would be no quick win. So, again: if the outcome was predictable, why did they do it? What should they have done?
As we afford our hallowed forebears the remembrance they deserve, let’s also try to learn from what transpired here seventy-five years ago, and see what it tells us about America’s future as an Asia-Pacific sea power.