Japan after the war, didn't want to remember the raids. Only hirashima and nagasaki were part of public remembrance. The government thought it might antagonize the americans who were then in occupation of japan. Sotomi himself was determined that the raid should not be forgotten. In 20 o two, he set up a museum. He always did accept that japan was fundamentally to blame for what its citizens had to go through. But he certainly felt by the end that he had not argued enough.