Choosing to hope
E Elize Sakamoto reflects on attending an inter-faith service of commemoration for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
I spent a good part of my childhood years in Tokyo and seem to have grasped the significance of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at a very young age. I am not sure exactly where it came from – whether it was having attended local schools with classes in Japanese history, having lived with my grandmother, who survived the firebombing raids of Tokyo in 1945 and spoke often of world war two, or perhaps it was simply a part of the national heritage and ethos.
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