[princessmarisa]

My experience of this is small but perhaps very relevant.

Whilst in Hiroshima peace gardens, an elderly Japanese man approached us and in broken English asked if we were American, with a stern look on his face. Before we had much chance to answer he said he did not like Americans and they should not be in Hiroshima Peace Gardens.

We replied that we were British and all of a sudden he was our best friend and talked at us in a mixture of Japanese and English for the next part of an hour and nice as it was it was very hard to leave when we had other things to see.

He kept repeating that he was so glad we were not American, and did we know what the Americans had done to Hiroshima.


To me it always confused me, I am not the best at history but surely us British are at least partly responsible for the bombings too?