ampguy
Veteran
What isn't mentioned is that both state side, and under MacArthur, the press was closed off for 4 weeks, and then censored (both text/dispatches, and photos).
The photographer below was escorted by one of MacArthur's captains
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/life-hiroshima-nagasaki-unpublished-photos-slideshow/
For more info. on the state side censoring, check out "Hiroshima in America" a book written after some of details from the '40s were declassified.
Also, there is a tidbit of the censorship on a wikipedia page "first into Nagasaki"
The photographer below was escorted by one of MacArthur's captains
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/life-hiroshima-nagasaki-unpublished-photos-slideshow/
For more info. on the state side censoring, check out "Hiroshima in America" a book written after some of details from the '40s were declassified.
Also, there is a tidbit of the censorship on a wikipedia page "first into Nagasaki"
noimmunity
scratch my niche
Thanks, Ted. Arresting images. The Christian motifs would have been too disruptive for the expectations of the rather naive mainstream U.S. public that had been fed and bought into the "other-izing" propaganda during wartime.
Censorship also played an important role in the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan, enabling the rehabilitation of "young Turks", such as those figures in the Kyoto School who had supported the war yet became enthusiastic supporters of the new U.S.-installed regime. The people who were the objects of censorship in the postwar occupation were exactly those people who had been jailed by the military adventurists for opposition to the war--those few courageous socialists who did not join in the mass defection of Leftists to rightwing militarism before the war known as Tenkô.
Censorship also played an important role in the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan, enabling the rehabilitation of "young Turks", such as those figures in the Kyoto School who had supported the war yet became enthusiastic supporters of the new U.S.-installed regime. The people who were the objects of censorship in the postwar occupation were exactly those people who had been jailed by the military adventurists for opposition to the war--those few courageous socialists who did not join in the mass defection of Leftists to rightwing militarism before the war known as Tenkô.
raytoei@gmail.com
Veteran
nagasaki had the largest christian population in japan at that time. wouldn't have gone well with public opinion if people found out that the usa was killing enemy christians in japan
ampguy
Veteran
Well just another note on the photos, they are of good technical quality, and have been preserved well. Whatever gear and film they were using was pretty good stuff to have held up this well.