Not a good week for the Nippons and especially so if one tosses in the world wide publicity surrounding the auction of a map used to navigate Enola Gay to its target.
The
Japan Times (newspaper) had an article on p.1 of this, this morning, complete with a photo of the cloth map.
Apparently it went for (only) USD72,000, which seemed quite a bargain considering (also mentioned in the article) that Col Tibbit's logbook sold for around USD300,000.
The map was signed and certified by the co-pilot to whom it belonged.
The newspaper article was non-partisan - which from my observation of the Japanese, is pretty much how they are about the bombings....
shoganai (which translated, roughly means,
keserahserah - what will be, will be.)