Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message news:<3F05CA44.9F142BE8@yahoo.co.jp>...
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> 
> > "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> > news:BB2B7991.41B4%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> > > On the way home I noticed a poster about a memorial ceremony on the
> > > anniversary of Gifu being carpet bombed in WWII. It shows a photograph
>  that
> > > shows the town leveled as if it were Hiroshima. Anyone know the history of
> > > all this?
> >
> > Contrary to what one might think today, just about every major (and even
> > bum-f**ked in the case of Gifu) city outside of Kyoto was pretty much
> > flattened by bombing.
> 
> Even Fukuyama was carpet bombed, with (they include injuries) a casualty count
> of 80,000. Lack of media or public attention and a focus on the A-bombings,
> particularly of Hiroshima, has contributed to this ignorance or apathy among
> Japanese. Many even forget the Tokyo firebombing.

As far as the majority of contemporary Japanese is a post-war
generation, using the word ‘forget' is not appropriate.  You mean
failing to recall person's real experience by the term?

Masayuki