Each year, come August, there are ceremonies across the globe to remember and reflect upon the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While this event marks the end of the War in the Pacific, in Asia the significance of these two dates is buried under other momentous events that occurred in the region around the same time. For Japan and the Japanese these two days and those that followed were truly horrific. They had to cope with the devastation caused by the bombing, the loss of lives and invasions from the Asian mainland and for most, the acceptance that Japan had lost the war .
