Van Wolferen identifies the mushroom cloud as a potent postwar symbol of Japan as victim, perhaps even the ultimate victim: a baptism by fire that erases all guilt of previous Japanese aggression.

范沃尔·弗伦指出，蘑菇云成了战后日本作为受害者的强有力的标志，甚至可能是最终的受害者：经过火的洗礼，日本人侵略别国的罪恶都被荡涤一空了。

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His symbol was fire and a blacksmith's hammer.

他的象征是火和铁匠的锤子。

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His symbol was fire and a blacksmith 'shammer.

他的象征是火和铁匠的锤子。

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One example of his outreach work was persuading a British radical who had unceremoniously set fire to a large paper poppy, the British symbol of remembrance for their war dead, to see the error of his ways.

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