Why I want to write a book?

   The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
　Although the number of atomic bomb survivors in my hometown of Hiroshima is decreasing, the Peace Memorial Museum, located in the center of the city, continues to leave a strong impression on the tourists who visit the city every day.
　Although all Japanese know that many innocent lives were "taken" in an instant, I feel that Japanese peace education emphasizes the "cruelty" of the atomic bombings.
　On the contrary, many Americans believe that the atomic bombing was the right choice. When I knew this data, I took it as an emotional response to the cruelty of the Americans.

　But is it really so? The fact that so many people died is heavy, and the people of Hiroshima had their families, their bodies, and their minds torn to shreds.
  But the U.S. must have had its own reasons, and it is important to consider the atomic bombingsfrom the perspective of the U.S. and other countries. It occurred to me.


　Perhaps it was just my poor research skills, but I could find few books or articles that discussed the atomic bombings from the viewpoints of multiple countries. There were only a few Western books.

　I was in the habit of staying up all night researching anything I wanted to know, even if I had to leave everything I was doing to do it.

　I would like to compile the recordings of the interviews into a book and publish it to communicate their thoughts and what I think about them.

　Of course, there will be those who have definite opinions, and there will be those who think what I am trying to do is trivial. Topics about war and peace are like that.


　When I was a high school student, I was in charge of a Hiroshima City-sponsored event to be held at Peace Park, and I was handing out flyers in the park with other committee members.

　One person crumpled up the leaflets I handed out and threw them away. It was a young male couple. What I felt at that moment was not anger or shock, but rather, "Oh, so this is how it is."

　I felt as if I were witnessing the embodiment of the phrase "indifference of the younger generation," which I often hear in the news. This is what it means to be indifferent.

　They are so preoccupied with the world of information that they label it as "other people's business" and become absorbed in the wide and narrow space on the small screen in front of them.

　Ideally, I would like all young people to be interested in peace.
　But since I know that this is impossible, I decided to write a book to encourage as many people as possible to think about it as their own business.
　The publication date is still uncertain, but I will do what I can, taking advantage of my position as a Hiroshima native, the relatively spare time I have as a university student, and the light footwork I was born with.