It is many things to many people now, and few indeed must be those to whom it is just the city where the Americans dropped the first atomic bomb. Life, as the typically Japanese phrase has it, goes on. One may disapprove of oneself for forgetting, may have wanted to keep the fact green, tended like a grave. It is impossible. Life is too strong.
Death loses on every occassion except one.
Donald Richie from the film The Inland Sea.