Inside a small museum in Jpentown, San Francisco, there is a powerful message about atrocities of the atomic bomb.
Rosalin Tonai, director of the National Japanese American Historical Society, said, “The American bomb is seen as a beautiful mushroom cloud, and the Japanese who were on the ground, see them as ground zero, destruction, 70,000 people who have lost their lives in a moment.”
In this summer, NJHS revived an exhibition of 30 years ago, to recall victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic atomic bombs that fell in Japan on 6 and 9, 1945, the United States.
Two bomb blasts ended World War II, with Japanese surrendering on August 15 after less than a week.
The exhibition also includes a single relic that serves as a Satta Yaad, a doll that was recovered from the debris in Nagasaki.
“An American family brought it and told us that they had kept it in all these years. It was given to them by a family that survived the nuclear explosion,” Tonai said.
Survivor stories are the ones who want Tonai to experience and understand. The performance already consumes those who survived nuclear explosions, including Jack Deriki, who still live in San Francisco.
Diarici was a Japanese American child who was visiting a family in Hiroshima, who was trapped in Japan due to war. On August 6, 1945, he was outside a factory on the outskirts of the city when the first bomb fell.
“We saw three aircraft coming on us,” Deriki said, during an interview with KPIX. “At that time, the bomb exploded, all the factory windows went out, it flew from the top of my head. My weight was 100 pounds and floating in the air.”
And now a new documentary is highlighting the devastation titled “Nuclear Eco” by filmmakers Victoria Kelly and Karin Tanbe.
,Some Americans think what happened under the mushroom cloud, “Tanabe said.” We all see the same image, which actually covers atrocities, and then we stay there in history books. ,
Tanbe’s great -grandfather was part of an attempt to rebuild in uncle Hiroshima.
Kelly’s grandfather was an American drug sent to Nagasaki, who saw the effects of the summit radiation disease. He was suffering from PTSD and died at the age of 42.
Filmmakers interviewed several other American Medics, who were sent to Japan 45 days after the bomb blasts.
Kelly said, “They were really torn, they were really proud of their service, and they all said, you know, we were there, and we can never re -do these bombs because they were the worst things we have ever seen,” Kelly said.
For Tonai, she believes that this topic is still relevant today and is still important to talk.
“We are CUSPS of an atomic buildup, and this is actually a call for world peace,” he said. “So, we really need to take a stagnation and take a look at human costs and consequences of a possible nuclear outcome.
He hopes that the history that happened eight decades ago will never repeat himself.
