The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World
The "Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Rethinking the Bombings towards a Post-Survivor World
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Description
ith 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this timely study
focuses on the challenge of keisho or "inheritance" and the way a new generation of
scholars and activists is re-examining the meaning of the A-bomb and the 80-year history
of commemoration and activism in the stricken cities. Comprising a team of scholars
based in the USA and Japan, many of whom are academics from this new generation, The
"Inheritance" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki takes a critical look at a range of historical topics
from the 80-year history of post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and beyond.
By examining both global connections and the local history of the two cities, this book
extricates memory from a national Japanese perspective, rethinking the history of survivors,
their experience, and their movement and exploring material culture and the problem of
inheritance and legacy.
Table of Contents
Part I: Reconstruction of Memory/Memory of Reconstruction
1. Yuko Kawaguchi: "Immigrants' Ties to Their Homeland: Hiroshiman Traders and Japanese-American Communities in the Early Postwar Years"
2. Marina Nishii: "Masculinity and Gender in Reconstruction of Hiroshima"
3. Hirokazu Miyazaki: "A Tale of Two Churches:Catholic Atomic Ruins, Fundraising, and Trans-Pacific Relationality"
4. Hibiki Yamaguchi: “Shogen as Witnessing and Fukugen as Reclaiming: Breaking the “Silence” of Nagasaki””
Part II: Hibakusha beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki
5. Kyoko Sato: “Surviving the A-Bomb in Japanese America: Politics, Expertise, and Nuclear Visions”
6. Naoko Wake: “The Bomb's Slow Violence: The Rise of Diasporic Memories and Transnational Activism”
7. Kyoko Matsunaga: “Trans/National Nuclear Colonialisms: Revisiting Village of Widows”
8. Yuki Miyamoto: “The Metaphor of Blood and Discrimination Against Hibakusha: A Hermeneutical Lacuna in Japan's Social Order”
Part III: Material and Immaterial Inheritance
9. Chad Diehl: "Visualizing Nagasaki: Art, Ekphrasis, and Postmemory"
10.Ran Zwigenberg: “Ihin: The Sanctification of A-Bomb Objects in the Hiroshima Museum”
11.Maika Nakao: “Body for Eulogy and Investigation: Science, Religion, and Atomic Bomb Victims in Postwar Nagasaki”
12.Robert Jacobs: "Atomic Memeification: “Hiroshima” as a Unit of Measure"
13.Masaya Nemoto: “From a Means to an End: The History of Inheriting the A-Bomb Experience in Hiroshima”
Maika Nakao, Masaya Nemoto, and Ran Zwigenberg: Epilogue
Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350378445 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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