Abstract
The inclusion of a chapter on ‘The Pacific War’ in a textbook on the global challenges and peace might give the reader a certain feeling of being ‘out of place’. The chapter’s main concerns are to reveal the circumstances in which Japan failed to recognise its colonial and war responsibility in regard to its Asian neighbours. The US public was shocked and made no objection to entering the war that would eventually lead to the collapse of the Great Japanese Empire: complete devastation of Japan’s cities in the air-raids, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the postwar occupation by the Allied Powers—General Headquarters (GHQ) and Supreme Commander of Allied Powers (SCAP), Douglas MacArthur. The chapter discusses issues of Hiroshima’s peace politics and debates on Japan’s pacifist constitution. Therefore, the main question in the chapter is how did post-war Japan’s oblivion of its inconvenient past in Asia happen ?. Keywords:Hiroshima; Pacific War; Post-War Japan; Supreme Commander of Allied Powers (SCAP)
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