All the Japanese People Needed Was Better Verification of Government Claims

From White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 15 minutes in:

dr. shuntaro HIDA
hiroshima

In 1945, I was a doctor at Hiroshima Army Hospital. At the start of the war with America many Japanese were excited, believing that we were winning. But then their sons began dying one after another. Mothers and wives began to feel an increasing anxiety as the war continued. Though the government kept saying that we were winning, the people realized Japan couldn’t win.