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...Yoshikuni Igarashi Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundational Narrative of United States -Ja pa n Postwar Relations Yoshikuni lgarashi Japan is like a woman that he can’t live with, and can’t live without...

...Sumit K. Mandal 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 For the Record: An Antiwar Protest in Jakarta Days before the Bali Bomb Attacks (A Photo-Essay) Sumit K. Mandal positions 13:1 © 2005 by Duke University Press Figure 1 On October 8, 2002, members of different...

..., capital of the province of Nghệ An, from a center of socialist utopian modernity and postwar urban recovery to a symbol of urban blight and late socialist decay. Destroyed by aerial bombing during the war with the United States, Vinh City was redesigned and rebuilt in the postwar years with East German...

... the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. Though the sojourn itself deserves restitution to the annals of South African literary history, its true value, the author argues, does not lie in enlarging our understanding of literary trends associated with the interwar years so much as isolating...

...- matic relation to weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and especially the atomic bomb. We face today a proliferation of scenarios that replay our fas- cination with WMDs in the lineage of the bomb — starships blasting plan- etary systems out...

... weapons and nuclear power. They were contained in a book titled Hiroshima- Nagasaki, edited by Tsutomu Iwakura (whom I later sought out and met), a book thick with photographs and paintings depicting the atomic bomb- ings of Hiroshima...

...Linda Hoaglund Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Wristwatch-.7 km from ground zero (1961). Interview with Tomatsu Shomei Linda Hoaglund In the winter of 1994 I encountered Tomatsu Shomei’s photographs of hiba4ysha (atomic bomb...

...-or the “Smithsonian atom- bomb exhibit debates,” as the Japanese-language news media more precisely referred to it-concluded with a major departure from the comprehensive exhibit originally planned by the museum. During more than a year...

...Joy Kogawa Three Deities Joy Kogawa I feel it is no coincidence—after all my intentions not to be here—that I should be speaking on this particular day about a particular event that happened some years ago. I refer to the atomic bombing...

... to ask this question after 9/11 because they witnessed an apocalypse up close. I want to explore an apoc- alypse, an absence, riveted memory, and history. The apocalypse was the wartime bombing of North Korea. The absence is American amnesia...

...-eventually reduced to a mere “display”- of the Enola Gay. Americans are not usually students of August 1945: A recent poll reveals that 60 percent of us do not know which president dropped the bomb on Japan and a third of us do not know...

... Scientiarum . Second Series 25 , no. 1 : 36 – 56 . Hanai Toru . 2015 . “ A-bomb Survivors’ Fukushima Doubts .” Reuters , August 6 . widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-bomb-survivors-fukushima-doubts . Higuchi Toshihiro . 2015 . “ The Strange Career of Dr. Fish: Yoshio Hiyama...

.... Nevertheless, if North Korea attacks with an atomic bomb or with other military means, the con- sequences will be devastating for all of Korea, and that is why conservatives in South Korea are able to use the external threat as a political weapon...

... Dean Acheson, de- livered a speech in which he attempted to justify the potential bombing of Cuba, saying that when U.S. power, prestige, and position in the world were placed in danger, there could be no issues of legality in evaluating the U.S...

... (although critics maintain that this was a war of aggression); Japan lost the war, and one factor in this defeat was the unprecedented historical catastro- phe of the atomic bombings (Japan’s defeat, then, was marked by an unas- similable trauma...

... Japanese and Jewish Responses to Twentieth-Century Atrocity .” Discourse 25 , nos. 1–2 : 248 – 71 . Treat John Whittier . 1995 . Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Tugend Tom . 2001 . “ Controversy over Anne...

..., The enemy killed thirty-six villagers, whose bodies are buried in a bomb crater. Ahuh Child, to put you to sleep, mother is singing a lullaby this afternoon. Child, remember the bomb crater in Truong Dinh...

...Gerald Figal Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Historical Sense and Commemorative Sensibility at Okinawa’s Cornerstone of Peace Gerald Figal The irony of the assertion “the atomic bomb saved lives” has recently been matched...

..., and memories were called upon, retold, and dramatically reenacted. The fiftieth anniversaries of the end of World War 11 in Europe, the end of the Asia Pacific War, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occasioned psitiom 5:3 0 1997...

... pop genres reiterate the atom bomb event as a cultural trauma. Akira repeats the trauma in ways that open historical and critical possibilities. Movie and book versions of Akira consequently become a “working through” of our terror...