There's no “by Riccardo Venturi” or by others here, although the translation is my material work. I do not know a single word of Japanese and I didn't plan to “learn it in fifteen days”. It is, so to say, sort of “collage translation”: as it seems there's no complete translation of the song available on line, I have worked it from a number of fragments (in English, of course) I found on the Web. Its reliability may be doubtful, of course; but I think it may give an idea of what the song says. The 6th August mentioned in the song is, as everyone should know, the day the fist H-bomb was launched on Hiroshima. [RV]