ABSTRACT
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|34 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|32 pages
Commemoration and Silence
Fifty Years of Remembering the Bomb in America and Japan
part II|118 pages
Commemoration and Censorship
chapter 3|21 pages
Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Nationalism and Memory in Japan and the United States
part III|124 pages
Contending Constituencies
chapter 9|29 pages
The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches
Japanese and American Perceptions of the Atomic-Bomb Decision, 1945–1995
chapter 10|30 pages
Memory Matters
Hiroshima's Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity
part IV|10 pages
Afterword
