Having worked as a High School teacher in Japan, the horrified reactions of Japanese citizens to the film Oppenheimer come as no surprise. Just as we hold up the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a decisive and monumental event which launched us into WW2 so the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima is treated as a watershed moment in Japanese history. Most children are taken on school trips there to learn about the event. The museum is full of powerful images and artifacts from the event. The burned clothes of teenage defense workers, melted bottles, the shadow of a man vaporized on the bank steps are moving testimony to the horrors of nuclear war. A replica of the bomb hangs from the ceiling. What is not shown and not learned about are the horrors committed by the JIA. I could find only one reference. There are no references to the Japanese Army's behavior and aggression in China, Burma and the Philippines. The rape of Nanking is unknown and not written or talked about. High School textbooks make no reference to these horrors or the prison camps, the remains of those who fought and died for Japan, including war criminals, continue to be venerated in many temples and particularly at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo. By inference young Japanese are taught that America was the aggressor and Japan the hapless victim. The film confirms that.