Entrevistas
His views on nuclear weapons
I guess we were lucky in that ... or I was lucky in that I was so young. We just took everything in stride. And I think basically the Japanese culture is shikataganai. You know? What happened, happened, it can’t be helped.
However, having said that, as I grew older in the United States and naturally my interest is in studying some of the reasons for the war: what led to the decision of the bomb and so forth? I still have tremendous anger towards the government or the leaders that will allow something like this to happen. Japan, the military leadership there drove the war. The ordinary people like you and I, we knew nothing about the beginning of the war—people like us—why we were in the war, but we just knew that the war started and we were supposed to help. I think the military decision, the government decision was really complicit in this happening. Now the United States is another area. Do I blame the people of the United States for doing this? No. Who do I blame? Who do I believe were the cause of such an event to take place? The leadership of the world are the ones that drove this devastation. And I blame them for the catastrophe.
Now having said that, in my younger days I used to think that there’s no one in the world dumb enough to drop another bomb like this again. But looking at the climate, world climate situation today, things are getting worse. People are becoming more aggressive. Small countries are trying to develop atomic bombs. The U.S. have 1600 atomic weapons. Russia has [a] similar amount. Then all the other countries put together maybe have the same amount as the United States. That's more than enough to destroy the world several times over, okay? And some of these weapon[s], atomic nuclear weapon[s] are several orders of magnitude more powerful than the A Bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima. Some of them could be miniaturized into smaller weapon that could be deployed into a small population or large population without making too much noise about it—for terrorist attack. That may be something ideal for them. All these things are beginning to worry me again. And I think we're less safe than we have been in the past.
Data: September 3, 2019
Localização Geográfica: California, US
Entrevistado: Masako Miki
País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum
Explore More Videos
Encontrando americanos japoneses do continente no MIS (Inglês)
(1923-2011) Advogado, veterano do Serviço de Inteligência Militar, fundador da Fundação Francis e Sarah Sogi
Consciência dos campos de concentração sendo um americano japonês (Inglês)
(1923-2011) Advogado, veterano do Serviço de Inteligência Militar, fundador da Fundação Francis e Sarah Sogi
Visitando a família no Japão (Inglês)
(1923-2011) Advogado, veterano do Serviço de Inteligência Militar, fundador da Fundação Francis e Sarah Sogi
Ficando no Japão durante a ocupação norte-americana (Inglês)
(1923-2011) Advogado, veterano do Serviço de Inteligência Militar, fundador da Fundação Francis e Sarah Sogi
Caça ao homem (Inglês)
(1919 - 2005) Desafiou a constitucionalidade da Ordem Executiva 9066
Reconstruindo o Japão (Inglês)
(1923-2011) Advogado, veterano do Serviço de Inteligência Militar, fundador da Fundação Francis e Sarah Sogi
O Veredito Final (Inglês)
(1919 - 2005) Desafiou a constitucionalidade da Ordem Executiva 9066
Revista da casa da família pelo FBI após o bombardeio de Pearl Harbor (Inglês)
(1937 - 2021) Professora
Não reconhecendo o pai após o reencontro em Crystal City, Texas (Inglês)
(1937 - 2021) Professora
As memórias das atividades de uma criança em Crystal City, Texas (Inglês)
(1937 - 2021) Professora
Hearing about Pearl Harbor
(n. 1921) Veterano de guerra nissei que serviu na ocupação do Japão
Uma lição a Ser Aprendida (Inglês)
(n. 1940) Advogado em casos de indenizações por erros judiciais
Traveling to Manzanar
(n. 1921) Veterano de guerra nissei que serviu na ocupação do Japão
Findings of the commission report
(n. 1931) Ex-Ministro dos Transportes
Trabalhos do programa Victory Corps durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial (Inglês)
(1925 - 2018) Professora nisei do Havaí