After Japan's surrender in WWII, Americans sent many Japanese soldiers returning to their homeland through Hiroshima to impress upon them how defeated Japan was.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/godzilla-was-metaphor-hiroshima-hollywood-whitewashed-it-n1236165

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