Japan Seems to Have Won World War II (part I)
- Artist/Author/Producer: United States Postal Service
- Confronting Bodies: Government of the Empire of Japan
- Dates of action: late 1994
- Location:
Washington D.C
- Description of the Art Work
- 32 cent United States postage stamp, with illustration of atomic
bomb explosion, and caption "Decision to drop atomic bomb saves GI lives"
- Description of incident
- Government of the Empire of Japan protested, alleging that the
A-bomb dropping at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not normal acts of war but
racially motivated genocide - an obvious crock, since the victorious
Allies did not exterminate the vanquished Japanese.
- Results of incident
- The United States Government and the United States Postal Service
kow-towed to the Japanese and withdrew the planned stamp.
Source: Multiple newspaper accounts. James P. Vichench (NY, NY)
record no: s38
