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The Nagasaki Peace Discourse 2019 - City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World (Paperback)
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The Nagasaki Peace Discourse 2019 - City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World (Paperback)
Series: Asia Briefings
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Loot Price R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Some 20,000 or more people were killed instantly in the atomic
bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945; an additional 40,000 or more
died from radiation and related illnesses in the coming days and
weeks. Many others were exposed to radiation effects. Remembrance,
the struggle for recognition on the part of the victims or
hibakusha, and the even greater struggle waged by City Hall in
Nagasaki to bring to world attention the threat of nuclear weapons,
are at the heart of this book. This we term the Nagasaki peace
discourse. Yet, other narratives vie with the `idealist' view.
`Realists' welcome the nuclear umbrella provided by the US-Japan
Treaty system and have eagerly embraced civilian nuclear power
under the `atoms-forpeace' slogan. On their part, Japanese
nationalists perceive Japan's `peace constitution' as ripe for
revision, looking ahead to a legal Self Defense Force and, for
some, a `normal' and even a nuclear-armed Japan. In the light of
the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 11 March 2011, however, City Hall
in Nagasaki cannot ignore the risks of civilian nuclear power or
the nation's mounting stockpile of plutonium. With Nagasaki
prefecture host to the second largest US naval base in Japan, as
became apparent with the 2017-18 Korean missile crisis, neither can
the city insulate itself from international politics. Seventy and
more years on from the atomic bombings, Hiroshima and, in subtly
different ways, Nagasaki, have a sombre message to convey. This is
encapsulated in no better way than in the popular civil society
slogan, `No! More! Hibakusha!'
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