All photos and stock video footage in this article are copyright by T. Martin Bennett, used by permission. Today you can journey to Japan to experience the sites, culture, people and food like you’d do any other international travel. But, when you study relatively recent history (the World War 2 era of the 1940’s), they were bombing us, we were bombing them [the featured photo above is of The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi)] – – – we were bitter enemies.