A historiography - Roger talks to Machiko

R: Tell me what you learn about Hiroshima then . . . What people tell you about it.
M: We are victims . . . always victims. We know a bomb dropped and many people died. And there's Leukaemia.
R: That's in school? You learn this in school?
M: Yes. And there are pictures of people in the river - burning people.
R: Is there any blaming?
M: What?
R: Do you blame anyone?
M: War is to blame.
R: And America?
M: We don't hear that. No-one says anything about that.
R: Just war.
M: War.

(Machiko is a Japanese artist whose parents were not alive in 1945; her grand parents were however. Neither have said anything to her about the A-bomb blasts in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The topic is taught in all schools in Japan.)