Editing Historical negationism (section)

====Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings====
{{further|Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}}
{{see also|Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}}
The ''[[Hibakusha]]'' ("explosion-affected people") of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seek compensation from their government and criticize it for failing to "accept responsibility for having instigated and then prolonged an aggressive war long after Japan's defeat was apparent, resulting in a heavy toll in Japanese, Asian and American lives".<ref>{{cite news | title=Japan's Atomic Bomb Victims Complain that Their Government Still Neglects Them & Refuses to Take Responsibility | publisher=History News Network | date=8 December 2005| url=http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/13654.html}}</ref> [[EB Sledge]] expressed concern that such revisionism, in his words "mellowing", would allow the harsh facts of the history that led to the bombings to be forgotten.<ref name="Sledge1">{{Cite book| last = Sledge| first = Eugene| title = China Marine| publisher = University of Alabama Press| date = 2002| page = 160| isbn = 978-0-8173-1161-2 }}</ref> Historians Hill and Koshiro have stated that attempts to minimize the importance of the bombings as "righteous revenge and salvation" would be revisionism, and that while the Japanese should recognize [[Japanese war crimes|their atrocities]] led the bombing, Americans also have to accept the fact that their own actions "caused [[Weapon of mass destruction|massive destruction]] and suffering that has lasted for fifty years".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Joshua |last2=Koshiro |first2=Yukiko |date=15 December 1997 |title=Remembering the Atomic Bomb |url=http://www.nd.edu/~frswrite/mcpartlin/1998/Hill.shtml |journal=Fresh Writing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205005048/http://www.nd.edu/~frswrite/mcpartlin/1998/Hill.shtml |archive-date=5 February 2008}}</ref>