Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367541996 / Twarda / 2023 / 252 str.

Masae Yuasa

Opis

Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and Hiroshima’s role in it, Yuasa investigates the events of post-war Japan and how it catalysed a range of challenges to public sentiment.

Spis treści

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: competing and merging pacifist imaginaries in postwar Japan

1 Emerging constitutional pacifism

2 Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident and anti-nuclear and nuclear pacifism

3 Survivors’ parallel worlds

4 Start of Hiroshima’s anti-nuclear movement and Moritaki’s anti-nuclear imaginary

5 Movement to save survivors

6 Peace administration and institutionalized Hiroshima Heart

7 Hibakusha as storytellers

8 Hibakusha self-help movement challenging the state aid regime

9 Anti-nuclear power movement

10 Reviving constitutional pacifism in Hiroshima

11 Fukushima accident and its impact on Hiroshima

12 Post-Fukushima Hiroshima movements challenging Hiroshima pacifism

13 Hiroshima caught between proactive pacifism and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Conclusion: pacifism as imaginary and institution

Index

O autorze

Masae Yuasa is a sociologist teaching in the Faculty of International Studies of Hiroshima City University, Japan. She is interested in the politics of radiation, and her related work in English includes ‘The Future of August 6^th 1945’ (The Study of Time XIV, 2013, BRILL).