Japan has hit out at China over a newspaper story that said Tokyo wanted another war and included a map showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the two countries.
The Chongqing Youth Daily, which serves the western metropolis, ran a map on July 3 entitled “Japan wants a war again” in English and Chinese. It included mushroom clouds over the western Japanese cities that remain the only places to have been hit by an atomic bomb. The map appears to have been removed online since publication.
“It is truly thoughtless to depict a mushroom cloud,” Fumio Kishida, Japan’s foreign minister, said yesterday. “As the foreign minister of the only country to suffer a nuclear attack, and as a politician from Hiroshima, I cannot tolerate it.”