Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age - American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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 U.S.-Japan relations throughout the last half of the twentieth century. It is now clear, however, that memories and lessons learned from the bombings are still being reworked and contested, perhaps even more heatedly than they were in 1945. Tracking the development of that fifty-year trajectory, this volume explores the ways in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples: for Americans, the dominant story is that the bombs provided an appropriate and necessary conclusion to a just war; for Japanese, it is a symbol of their victimization. The distinguished contributors analyze the ways in which memories of the bombs, constantly reworked in the media, in the arts, and in the political arena, continue to define important, albeit often unacknowledged, undercurrents in the U.S.-Japan relationship.

General

Imprint:	M.E.Sharpe
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1996
First published:	1997
Authors:	Laura E. Hein • Mark Selden
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-56324-966-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > Nuclear weapons
LSN:	1-56324-966-9
Barcode:	9781563249662

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