I'm not sure that the desire to commemorate Japanese losses on Hiroshima day can be dismissed as 'rightism'. Perhaps if there was more awareness in the US of the race-chauvinism that prepared American public opinion for the use of the A Bomb, the right would not be able to get this foothold on Japanese public opinion.
In message <4.3.2.7.2.20010807080717.00c2a8a0 at hsoak01a.ebay.sun.com>,
Brad Mayer <bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com> writes
>Pardon for the appearance of self-indulgence in "responding" to my own
>post, but a key element was neglected in this highly significant symbolic
>event planned for August 15th (the date of Imperial Japan's WW2 surrender).
>
>Which is, that it is no accident that the Japanese Right chose August 6th,
>the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to post their Yasukuni
>"unity" advertisement. The Right has always shamelessly exploited a
>dangerously exclusive sense of victimhood as cover for it's own
>responsibility for the atrocities, both incendiary and atomic, actually
>committed by the US, due to its needless prolongation of a hopelessly lost
>war. It would seem that holocausts of all sorts are a last refuge for
>righists.
>
>-Brad Mayer
>
-- James Heartfield