a highly congested city boasting the best natural harbor in western kyushu. [explosion] this bomb, exploding over the district, took the lives of 42,000 persons. 39% of all of the buildings in nagasaki before the calamity. the japanese described their mutilated city as a graveyard, with not a tombstone standing. these terrifying blows were struck in japan only after profound consideration of all of the human and military factors. dropped tobombs were end the war quickly, and they did in the war quickly. richard frank's offer -- author of "downfall." here to talk to us further about the 75th anniversary of the drop of the atomic bombs by the u.s. on japan. richard frank, thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: in that last clip, the military film from 1946, it said that the atomic bombs were dropped to end the war quickly, and they did in the war quickly. was this the right decision to make and for those farms the reason for the end of the war? guest: the short answer is that yes and yes. overwhelmingly the primary reason was to end the

that was the direction we were going in august of 1945, if the invasion of kyushu was off and he gets his way then we do block aid, kill millions of japanese noncombatants. by the way, those asians not japanese, who are dying every single day, had their deaths on top of the japanese dying. the death tolls for alternatives when you sit down and contemplate them was sickening, mind boggling. >> we have len on the line from west virginia. hello, len. >> good morning c-span and mr. frank. i'm the son of an okinawa veteran training to go to the invasion in japan. of course they never had to go because president truman had the common sense to do what he did. for those who criticizes um truman and the army i'll tell you what my dad said, let every one of those critics go to the family of people, american gis who were saved from invading japan and certain death and tell them that truman did the wrong thing. i know you don't have the guts to do that. thank you, mr. frank, for your books. very informative. >> len, thank you for calling. richard frank, has history been fair to president truman r

there was a scenario where we were going to have overwhelming superiority going into q shoe -- kyushu. american casualties were going to be unpleasant, but acceptable. and the japanese had anticipated this huge buildup of ground forces. 700,000 troops. 780,000 troops would be facing the japanese. officer had never wanted to invade japan and he was biting his time. by the ninth of august, he was prepared to bring on this and only the japanese surrender put that off before it reached the level of mr. truman having another review. you are on with richard frank. we're talking about the sympathetic anniversary. good morning, tom. morning.ood i am age 60 and i remember the howard then lectures of my history isrs of how being rewritten so much by people with agendas. i am hearing on talk radio the --y reason we bombed progressive talk radio that is, the only reason we bombed japan was because they were not europeans. in other words, they were people of color, which is nonsense because we bombed dresden. that was a purpose of demoralizing the german people, for them to surrender. it is unfort

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the kyushu region in southern japan has been hit especially hard.n early july, torrential downpours dumped a month's worth of rain in a 24-hour period. this triggered floods along a major river leaving more than 60 people dead. there is also r record rainfalln other parts of japan. many people have been affected by floods and landslides. today we look at efforts to deal with natural disasters in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak and ways to improve those responses. our first report looks at the challenges faced by rescue teams in kumamoto. while the relief work there was underway in unrelenting rain, nhk spoke with a doctor who is coordinating operations. >> translator: it is still raining heaeavily today. things have yet to settle down. >> reporter: it's a race against time for tanaka and his team. their goal is to develop medical support and supplies to the hardest-hit areas. but as extreme weather continues to pound the region,, they are being forced to exercise patience. >> traranslator: even if we receive information that there are people

slowing the the east as well, bringing high waves and strong winds into kyushu and making its way towardhe korean peninsula as we go throughout the next couple days. this is something we'll have to continue to monitor. hope you have a safe day wherever you are. >> that concludes this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard. ♪ >>> tokyo's benchmark stock index rose sharply on tuesday, just about returning to where it was before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. the nikkei average ended at 23,296 up about 310 points or 1.35%. the gains came after the dow jones industrial average in new york reached a six-month high overnight. stocks rallied after the u.s. government approved a potential treatment for covid-19. from february to march, the nikkei dropped about 30% but has snapped back by 40%. investors are closely watching developments toward any new vaccine, but analysts say it's far from clear whether the recovery trend will continue as there are many uncertainties around the coronavirus situation. >>> this is "newsli

this is typhoon bevy bringing places along north and south korea and japan and kyushu.torm surge also a big issue here. strong winds are expected. if you can evacuate, please do so as soon as possible. temperaturewise going to be quite warm for shanghai, taiwan, as well as into tokyo which might reach 33 degrees. that's all for weather. take care. ♪ ♪ >>> so, sweltering heat has been baking japan, but an iconic serves as a lord of a castle is trying to fulfill his duty of greeting tourists. the lord of the castle is usually active but recently has been spending uch many of his time resting in the shade. still, he dutifully greets people when they come. temperatures there have topped 35 degrees celsius for 18 days in a row. >> translator: i'm happy i could finally meet him. it was tough though walking up here in the heat. >> translator: i would like to make our castle a place that will make people happy. we'll all do our best together with our lord. >> the lord's staff have set up a hut with bamboo vines for sanjuto. they also try to keep him out of the sun when they tak

presented with a scenario in which we were going to have overwhelming superiority going into southern kyushu. and therefore american casualties would be acceptable. what we now know, radio intelligence had uncovered the fact that the japanese had exactly anticipated that the first american invasion was going to take place on southern kyushu. they built up over 10,000 airfare -- aircraft. 7000 troops. instead of us going on with overwhelming superiority, our salt would be facing 700,000 japanese. we now know a senior naval officer had never wanted to invade japan. he had been biding his time and by the ninth of august, 1945, with the intelligence he was prepared to bring on this showdown with the army over whether there should be any invasion. only the japanese surrender at off before it reached the level of mr. truman having another review. >> let's take a call from tom. you are on with richard frank. we are talking about the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in japan. >> good morning. i am age 60 and i remember the howard zinn lectures of my college years, of how history is being rewr

asia, also making its presence felt, especially for those along the east coast of china, parts of kyushuand the island of south korea. also temperatures are quite warm along those parts leading to the storms being much stronger. it could make land fall also on thursday just along the korean peninsula. so, we've been monstering as it moves into the northern direction. please stay safe at all times. finding high grounds should be advised and look out for strong winds that could topple down trees and lead to power cuts in certain areas. temperature cuts warmer conditions leading to warmer sea surface temperatures making it a little bit more difficult for people in western as well as -- western japan as well as into the southern parts of korea. fukuoka reaeachingg a maximum o7 and hot weather expected in tokyo. that's all for your weather. have a great day. ♪ ♪ >>> the organizers of the berlin international film festival say they will scrap the best actor and best actress awards and replace them with gender neutral prizes. they said in a statement that performance awards should not be separa

fact japanese exactly anticipated the first american invasion was going to take place on southern kyushu. they built this huge buildup of ground and air force, 10,000 aircraft, half of them kamikaze, 700,000 troops. instead of us going in with overwhelming seniority our echelon would be faciing 700,00 japanese. the senior naval officer had never wanted to invade japan and had been biding his time to bring on a showdown over whether an invasion should take place. by the 9th of august 1945 with the intelligence, he was prepared to bring on this huge showdown with an army over whether there should be an invasion of japan. only japanese surrender cut that off before it reached a level of mr. truman having a review. >> let's take a call from tom in arlington, west virginia. you're on with richard frank. we're talking about the 75th anniversary of atomic bombings of japan. go ahead, tom. >> caller: good morning. >> good morning. >> caller: i'm age 60. i remember the howard zen lectures of my college years of how history is being rewritten so much right now by people with agendas. i'm hearing o

the north and northeast already seeing the outer bands of the storm affecting south korea and also kyushu of japan. the storm will continue to make its way toward the north and also interacting with the stationary front. all that moisture will be moving up north. we are talking about a few hundred millimeters of rainfall over a 24 to 36 hour period. also into portions of japan as well. so looking at the forecast here, the storm is expected to brush by toward the west of the korean peninsula, possibly making landfall to the north as we go through thursday. but we're looking at rainfall amounts 200 millimeters possible into north korea. south korea and western japan. seeing up to 500 millimeters of rain. on top of that gusts could hit up to 216 kilometers per hour into thursday. because of this particular process, this storms moves to the north and northeast. you'll have to watch this closely because it's going to be quite the stormy one. here's a look at the forecast. shanghai 29 with thunderstorms as we go through thursday. we're also talking about a big hurricane that's moving into the g

there's a long description about, first they are going to hit kyushu, and then honshu, and on and on. t the end of the discussion, they have been talking about the invasion in great detail. at the end of the discussion, and this is the second thing that impressed me about truman. he wanted to hear from everybody. he wanted to hear from people whether they agreed with the direction he was going or not. he was not scared at all of dissent. one person has been silent in this whole meeting, a fellow named john mccloy, an assistant secretary of war, maybe the most junior person in the room. but he was a very distinguished new york. and he was stimson's troubleshooter. truman says to him, nobody leaves this room without saying what is on their mind. mccloy turns to stimson and says can i? and stimson says, go ahead. he says i think we ought to have our heads examined if we do not discuss other options. then he does something in the previous 45-50 minutes had not been done. he mentions the bomb for the first time. e says, there's this bomb, and i think we ought to consider that, which might,

keep in mind the invasion of kyushu, the target date was four months after the bombing of hiroshima. and so the idea that the bombs were a last resort, you know, to an invasion that was just about to happen, that's not quite right. but as i say, veterans of that war had their own very, very strongly held beliefs about what had happened at the end of the war. and as an historian, someone who is interviewed hundreds, literally hundreds of world war ii veterans, i have never made it a practice to argue with world war ii veterans about this. i present my views but i think it's important to recognize and to honor the feelings -- the very strong feelings that veterans have about this subject. >> twilight of the god's is your third in the trilogy. how long have you been working on the trilogy? >> 14 years. >> phillip is up next. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm 80 years old. my grandfather was in the army air corps served at wheeler field on december 7th and my father-in-law served in the u.s. navy for three years and most of that time in the south pacific. ironically, the ship

there was a scenario where we were going to have overwhelming superiority going into q shoe -- kyushuan casualties were going to be unpleasant, but acceptable. and the japanese had anticipated this huge buildup of ground forces. 700,000 troops. 780,000 troops would be facing the japanese. officer had never wanted to invade japan and he was biting his time. by the ninth of august, he was prepared to bring on this and only the japanese surrender put that off before it reached the level of mr. truman having another review. you are on with richard frank. we're talking about the sympathetic anniversary. good morning, tom. morning.ood i am age 60 and i remember the howard then lectures of my history isrs of how being rewritten so much by people with agendas. i am hearing on talk radio the --y reason we bombed progressive talk radio that is, the only reason we bombed japan was because they were not europeans. in other words, they were people of color, which is nonsense because we bombed dresden. that was a purpose of demoralizing the german people, for them to surrender. it is unfortunate, w

a highly congested city boasting the best natural harbor in western kyushu. [explosion] this bomb, exploding over the district, took the lives of 42,000 persons. 39% of all of the buildings in nagasaki before the calamity. the japanese described their mutilated city as a graveyard, with not a tombstone standing. these terrifying blows were struck in japan only after profound consideration of all of the human and military factors. dropped tobombs were end the war quickly, and they numbers, i've seen above 80%. it's changed over the years because the narratives have been employed over the years have changed very much. reallythe things that concerns me about this is, i don't question thathe intelliges prepared to bring on this showdown with the army over whether there should be any invasion. only the japanese surrender at off before it reached the level of mr. truman having another that is -- the only reason we bombed japan, because they were not europeans. in other words, there were people of caller, which is nonsense because we bombed dresden in germany. a pur