The Dual Altar of Total War: Sumida, Hiroshima, and the Mechanical Dissolution of the Innocent

In my previous post on the Hansai of Nagasaki—the cleansing fire that consumed the historic heartland of Japanese Catholicism in the Urakami Valley—I explored how the chaotic interplay of weather, military friction, and contingency converged to rewrite a nation’s spiritual geography. It was a tragedy born of tactical redirection; a secondary target obliterated because the Continue reading The Dual…