Takashi Nagai, a Japanese Catholic who was at Nagasaki.   And Leonard Cheshire, also at Nagasaki.

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Takashi Nagai, a Japanese Catholic who was at Nagasaki. And Group Captain Leonard Cheshire

Postby rerevisionist » 30 Aug 2011 17:39


Added 16 Aug 2014 by 'Rerevisionist':

On Nagasaki, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire is often described as 'witnessing' the 'atomic bombing' of Nagasaki.
The following extracts are taken from http://spartacus-educational.com, a Jewish mass-murder site which of course is anti-German and anti-Japanese:

Major Charles Sweeney was selected to lead the mission and Nagasaki was chosen as the target. This time it was agreed that Cheshire and William Penny, could travel on the aircraft that was to take photographs of the attack on 9th August. When they reached Nagasaki they found the city covered in cloud and Kermit Beahan, the bombardier, was at first unable to find the target. Eventually, the cloud parted and Beahan dropped the bomb a mile and a half from the intended aiming point.

What Leonard Cheshire actually wrote in the book attributed to him The Light of Many Suns; The Meaning of the Bomb (1985): "The ultra-dark glasses we each had round our foreheads to protect our eyes from the blinding light of the bomb were not needed because we were about fifty miles away. By the time I saw it, the flash had turned into a vast fire-ball which slowly became dense smoke, 2,000 feet above the ground, half a mile in diameter and rocketing upwards at the rate of something like 20,000 feet a minute. I was overcome, not by its size, nor by its speed of ascent but by what appeared to me its perfect and faultless symmetry. In this it was unique, above every explosion that I had ever heard of or seen, the more frightening because it gave the impression of having its immense power under full and deadly control.... The cloud lifted itself to 60,000 feet where it remained stationary, a good two miles in diameter, sulphurous and boiling. Beneath it, stretching right down to the ground was a revolving column of yellow smoke, fanning out at the bottom to a dark pyramid, wider at its base than was the cloud at its climax. The darkness of the pyramid was due to dirt and dust which one could see being sucked up by the heat. All around it, extending perhaps another mile, were springing up a mass of separate fires. I wondered what could have caused them all."

    So Cheshire was in a plane at the rear, fifty miles away, and saw no flash. He also saw no bomb dropped. He doesn't state how long it took his plane to arrive at Nagasaki; a B-29's cruise speed is (say) 220 mph, so there's about 15 minutes. I leave it to the reader to carefully go through Cheshire's account and decide whether firebombing is consistent with the events here (note the bold part) or a nuclear weapon with all its alleged properties.
As a contrast, here's the 'embedded journalist' supposedly in Sweeney's B52, Bockscar. Note the entirely different description; I've put a part in bold to emphasise the absurdity:

William Laurence was a journalist who was invited by Leslie Groves to be on Sweeney's aircraft: "We watched a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shoot up like a meteor coming from the earth instead of outer space. It was no longer smoke, or dust, or even a cloud of fire. It was a living thing, a new species of being, born before our incredulous eyes. Even as we watched, a ground mushroom came shooting out of the top to 45,000 feet, a mushroom top that was even more alive than the pillar, seething and boiling in a white fury of creamy foam, a thousand geysers rolled into one. It kept struggling in elemental fury, like a creature in the act of breaking the bonds that held it down. When we last saw it, it had changed into a flower-like form, its giant petals curving downwards, creamy-white outside, rose-coloured inside. The boiling pillar had become a giant mountain of jumbled rainbows. Much living substance had gone into those rainbows."
I noted on CODOH's forum on 'the Holocaust' a comment on a review by Michael Hoffmann. Hoffmann is (I think the following is correct) a revisionist and serious student/critic of Judaism, and who has a background of German Catholicism. I looked at his collection of reviews - on e.g. the genuine King James Bible, people from Amish and other German-American religious backgrounds, Luther, Puritans and what Protestants call the Reformation, the relation between blacks and Jews, Judaic women, the 'war on terror', US traditional music and religion and culture, Judaised versions of English literature - such as Oliver Twist, Jewish/Israeli crimes (Lehman Brothers, anyone?), secret societies, and more.

In fact, here's a link to Hoffmann's review cluster http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2TB7A4L48Q6TH/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview

Hoffmann has had a revisionist website for years. He published on CD (or DVD?) a black-letter German historical work on the crimes of Judaism, which had all but disappeared. He published his own research into slavery of whites.

Anyway, two of his Amazon.com reviews concern the Nagasaki bombing - specifically, someone called Takashi Nagai, who worked in radiography - he's described as a 'brilliant scientist' somewhere, though we may take that with a pinch of salt. He survived Nagasaki, and seems to have had censorship problems with the Americans, but eventually (1949) Nagasaki no Kane (Nagasaki without [church] Bells) was published. He died in 1951. If I've read all this properly, 40 years after publication his story was written up by Fr. Paul Glynn, why *may* perhaps be the 'Father' interviewed on black and white newsreel giving an account of supposed atom bombing.

This is Hoffmann's review of the biography, not of Nagasaki without Bells ---
A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai - Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
by Fr. Paul Glynn (1st published 1989)
A hymn to the spirit of Japan and one of her greatest modern saints
The life of Takashi Nagai embodies a paradox: a convert from the traditional religion of Japan to Catholicism, he nevertheless embodied the virtues of the Japanese character - virtues which were expressed through his faith in Christ. This book will appeal to many diverse persons: atheists and agnostics struggling for truth, medical students and physicians, Catholics and missionaries, and students of modern Japanese history and President Truman's criminal atomic bomb holocaust against the Christian city of Nagasaki. But it is primarily the story of a human being whose hard work, self-sacrifice and dedication, along with early weaknesses and failure that he overcame through Christ, offers us a candle in the darkness. This is a fascinating and heart-warming tale of love in the face of harrowing adversity. No one who reads "A Song for Nagasaki" will go away unrewarded. (Another review of the same book states: the chapter on Nagasaki's hidden Christians, who for more than two centuries after it was banned secretely passed their faith from generation to generation, without priests or churches, is worth the price of the book by itself).


Interesting to see what sounds like apologetic and sentimental stuff - something like Anne Frank but without the Jewish race component, and with a very pro-Catholic missionary attitude, applied to the supposed atomic holocaust. Why this should get priority over holocaust by burning, as in Tokyo (and Dresden) isn't entirely clear to me. It doesn't sound my type of book, but anyway it's another twist in WW2 story-telling.
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Re: Takashi Nagai, a Japanese Catholic who was at Nagasaki

Postby FirstClassSkeptic » 31 Aug 2011 22:26

This is the authentic 1611 King James Bible. It is an Oxford University Press reprint of the 1611 edition with all its particular spellings, but set in easier to read Roman type. Almost all other so-called "King James Bibles" sold today do not contain the text of the original and would hardly be recognizable to King James. They are, rather, a product of changes by two editors working more than a century later, F.S. Parris, who made significant alterations for a 1743 printing by Cambridge University Press, and Benjamin Blayney who, building on Parris, made major changes on every page, for an Oxford University Press edition published in 1769.

Almost all "King James Bibles" purchased new today contain the redacted and modernized (according to 18th century principles; 18th century grammar imposed on a 17th century text) 1769 version of the King James, which incorporates thousands of alterations. Contemporary Bible publishers do not trumpet this fact. It has largely been kept from the public.


Without choosing sides in this debate, it is an undeniable fact that "King James" Bibles printed by publishing houses at present are guilty of false advertising, which is a type of fraud. The public have the right to know what they are buying. This would seem to be a right of the marketplace. All of the edited King James Bibles (in other words virutally every edition published today), should prominently bear the notice, "Revised 1769 Edition," although in that case they probably would not sell very well, since there is intense nostalgic investment among the public in the original King James text. One would think that truth in advertising would be obligatory when it comes to marketing the Word of God; not so.


One of the very few I've read that points out that what preachers call the 'sixteen eleven king james' isn't. And the preachers are too incompetent, or ignorant, to know this. Or lying if they do. But of course, like he says, the Bible publishers don't mention it. In fact, most of them put in "Preface to the 1611 KJV " I do have one bible that says, "Comparable to the 1611 edition'.

Someday I should write my "The deliberate mistranslation of Romans 13" article.
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