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PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.">First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.

By Nick Hodge | June 9, 2008

Atomic Dome, Hiroshima, Japan

From the ABC: “Rudd lays wreath for Hiroshima vic­tims

Mr Rudd is the first Aus­tralian prime min­is­ter to visit Hiroshima’s Peace Park and Memorial.

How embar­rass­ing for Aus­tralia. Why has no other Prime Min­is­ter vis­ited Hiroshima? Incredulous.

On the other hand, I won­der if a Japan­ese Prime Min­is­ter will visit the Thailand-Burma Rail­way and apo­lo­gize.

One day, maybe.

Topics: history, politics | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.”

  1. linsas Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    And pre­sum­ably you think that if Tojo had the ‘bomb’ before the yanks you would be here now? dream on!

  2. US Political Blogger in Australia | Sentersoft Blog! Says:
    January 8th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

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