"Perhaps for someone who was born in the postwar years, that would work," Seimei says. "But I lived through those years: I was in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the immediate aftermath, when it wasn't the Genbaku Dome but just the stubborn skeleton of a building that had remained standing. I remember well the terror and despair of those days.
"But looking back on it now...if it were not for the bombings, we would not be where we are now. Oh, our government would probably surrendered in a few months or so, but not capitulated as completely as we did. We would not have had the American occupation, and we would not have had the prosperity of the Shōwa era.
"And this is the full meaning of the Tower, yes? Something that feels like the end of the world when it happens, but that ultimately brings a positive transformation that could never have happened otherwise."
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Date: 2015-11-10 11:56 pm (UTC)"But looking back on it now...if it were not for the bombings, we would not be where we are now. Oh, our government would probably surrendered in a few months or so, but not capitulated as completely as we did. We would not have had the American occupation, and we would not have had the prosperity of the Shōwa era.
"And this is the full meaning of the Tower, yes? Something that feels like the end of the world when it happens, but that ultimately brings a positive transformation that could never have happened otherwise."