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It seems the Japanese Wikipedia's バーベンハイマー#日本の反応 has more texts than what this article's "Japanese response" section currently does, so why not incorporate more content from there? But before we go, there are some things to consider. On one hand, as the only country to be attacked by nuclear weapons, the use of mushroom cloud image as a humour or in a lighthearted context is considered to be inappropriate in Japan. On the other hand (and correct me if I'm wrong), most of Japanese people are not sufficiently educated about any wrong doings of the Empire of Japan and its armed forces during their existence, and especially the Second World War, which led to the droppings of the bombs by the United States in the first place.¹ Additionally, at the time the social media controversy arose, the contemporary Japanese government was considering whether or not (or rather, when) to dump the radioactive wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. Hope these add much to the context.

By the way, I'd like to recommend everyone to read Barefoot Gen, which criticises both the war crimes of Imperial Japan, and America's dropping of atomic bombs.

¹ But let's not cite some non-notable sources like last time. Perhaps we can wait until a notable anti-Japanese expert writes an opinion for a major outlet, and then a pro-Japanese expert replies with a counter-claim (like in November 2019 when an anti-Japanese historian called for a ban of Rising Sun Flag in the venues of 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, for being a symbol of Japanese imperialism, and a press secretary from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called that opinion to be based on a misunderstanding).

JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 11:22, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

• This RfC fails on WP:RFCOPEN and this really needs to be discussed per WP:RFCBEFORE. I recommend withdrawing this RfC or narrowing the question to something more brief. Nemov (talk) 13:59, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

  I agree. I didn’t know this was even supposed to be an rfc. Additionally there is no discernible topic at all, mostly just a suggestion to incorporate text from a foreign language Wikipedia (uncontroversial and common action; does not need an rfc) followed by a lot of WP:NOTFORUM musing about Japanese political controversies as well as manga recommendations(???) Dronebogus (talk) 09:20, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

  Then what should I have done, other than not adding a book recommendation? JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 14:39, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

• I think that incorporating text from a foreign-language Wikipedia would be good, although not sure how much the other stuff has to do with the article. @JSH-alive: For those who do not have much reading time, would you recommend either the live-action or animated film adaptations? jp×g 04:51, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

  You mean other works that criticise both the Japanese Empire and the dropping of atomic bombs by the U.S.? I only know about Barefoot Gen, but that was later adopted into a live-action film series, an animated film series and a live-action TV series. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 14:52, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

A woman which was named after this movie event

There was a crazy story about a woman who accidentally named after this movie event, isn't that obvious to have this featured on this article or shall we just made her profile instead? VernardoLau (talk) 17:18, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

She's not named AFTER this event. For that, she would have needed to be born this summer or have changed her name. She's a random not notable private citizen who just coincidentally has a funny name. --Blobstar (talk) 17:44, 15 September 2023 (UTC)