Maria damaged by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki

 

Essay on August 9, 2015

Kazuchika Ohta

 

Today is the 70^th Nagasaki Genbaku Day. It means that it has passed 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped into Nagasaki City on the 9^th Aug., 1945. In this city, about 12,000 Christians lived, but about 8,500 among them were killed at once by the atomic bomb. Just after the surrender of Japan, the US army came to Nagasaki to survey the damages on people and architectures. They found a head separated from the broken Maria statue in the front of Urakami church < http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2128132524663240201/2128132539163247203>. They were terribly shocked to know that their US army killed many Christians by the atomic bomb drop. After that survey, this fact has been hindered from American ordinal citizens, and a secret officer was sent from the US government to Japan to control the news. In recent years, these secret American operations are gradually revealed. Although most Americans unconsciously think that Japanese people believe only Buddhism and/or Shintoism, it is not true. About 400 years ago, Portuguese and Spanish priests came to Japan and spread Christianity in Japan. Many Christians maintain their religion for 4 centuries, especially in Nagasaki. We Japanese still wonder whether the US army would drop the atomic bomb into Nagasaki, even if the US government knew in advance that there were many Japanese Christian habitants in Nagasaki. They may believe that Japanese people were not Christians but Buddhist. Hence, we cannot help thinking that the atomic bomb drops into Hiroshima and Nagasaki may contain discrimination to the other religions.

 

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