I was really looking forward to the Japan release, so I'm deeply shocked. It feels like Japan has been excluded from the feminist solidarity. I saw comments calling the protest 'victim play.'
It's true that Japan has a history as a perpetrator during wars, and that remains. However, it's also a fact that there were 1.3 million victims. They literally melted away due to the scorching radiation, with their body fluids evaporating and their skin cracking like shredded clothes, fluttering in the hot wind. The bomb's light was so intense that it burned the shadows of the people who were standing on the stone pavement. Those shadowed individuals' bodies melted and disappeared, including their bones and teeth.
The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not just 'big and dangerous bombs.' People melted and vanished in the heat, and afterward, contaminated black rain fell, exposing people to radiation and giving rise to new discrimination. (For years, people who were born and raised in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have faced discrimination as survivors and have been stigmatized in marriages and interactions with people from other prefectures.)
I wish there was more respect and compassion shown towards these victims. Both the United States and Japan have lost innocent lives unjustly in wars, and that's the same for both countries.
Is it considered right-wing to desire compassion, solidarity, and respect for the victims of the mistakes humans made in wars? Unfortunately, the movie 'Oppenheimer' won't be released in Japan.
Through this incident, I became convinced that Japan's perception of events like Pearl Harbor differs from that of the United States. This serves as a lesson for us as well. I realized that it's something common to all countries. How we view war from different perspectives can alter the emotions and perceptions that arise as byproducts of facts.
That's why I believe we must avoid creating conflicts. The only ones who benefit from confrontation and division are those few who decide on war and never go to the battlefield.
I want to share the danger of turning war into a mockery and internet memes.
I may not directly know the horror of the atomic bomb, and I would like to see and learn about the history of the atomic bomb from the American perspective, so it's very disappointing not to have it released.
I’d like to know how the PR teams of Barbie and Oppenheimer plan to address this meme going forward. It will help me decide whether to watch the movie ‘Barbie’ or not.”