英語検定ライティング準１級（第260回）

原爆の日「こどもの頃に教えてほしかった話」

10日もすればまた原爆の日が来る。原爆が広島と長崎に落ちて戦争が早く終わったなどとこどもの頃に聞いた。どうしてそんな嘘が教えられたのか。こどもにも分かるような説明がいる。
In ten days, The Atomi Bomb Day comes again.
When children, we heard that “The Little Boy” and “The Fat Man”made an essential difference because the extremely violent explosion forced “The Pacific War” to end even earlier, which reduced the amount of damage for what Japan was at that time, which deceived us.
Even toward children in the elementary schools, they should have told what was true in Japan in those days.

なぜ米国は原爆を日本に落としたのか。この理由がどのように説明されているのかを知りたかった。資本主義と共産主義との対立構造が原因だとここには書かれていていい説明だと思う。
Why did America drop two atomic bombs to Japan ?
How would this reason be explained to us ?
We should have known these two questions’ answers when we used to be in the elementary school.
The posters in the entrance of the community center, actually, do a good job to make understandable explanations known to ordinary citizens including a child.
In fact, these explanations announce that the conflict structure between America and the late Soviet Union was responsible for America’s dropping two kinds of atomic bombs to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is something persuasive and reasonable as the statement.

ドイツと日本の戦後処理について米国はソ連に対しイニシアティブを獲りたかった。原爆を早く完成させることでそれは実現可能だった。資料には簡単な説明がこのように書かれている。
In those days, America actually wanted to have the initiative about the post-war clean up of both Germany and Japan against the late Soviet Union, which would be realized when America could complete an atomic bomb much earlier than its rival nation, an online article says.
The material posters there explain these facts easily.

小学生は原爆の日に登校させられるのだからこういった真実を教えてほしかった。なぜ半世紀前にこの説明はできなかったのか。当時はまだベルリンの壁はしっかりと立っていたからか。
These understandable explanations should have been exposed to numerous children in the elementary schools in our neighborhoods because we used to be forced to attend there on The Atomic Bomb Day, he assumes.
Probably the school teachers might have the reason that they couldn’t tell children what was true in Japan about five decades ago, maybe, The Berlin Wall stood firmly.