Bridging the atomic divide : debating Japan-US attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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書誌事項
Bridging the atomic divide : debating Japan-US attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Lexington Books, c2019
- : cloth
- タイトル別名
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日本人の原爆投下論はこのままでよいのか : 原爆投下をめぐる日米の初めての対話
- 統一タイトル
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Nihonjin no genbaku toka ron wa konomama de yoi no ka
大学図書館所蔵 全8件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"Originally published: Nihonjin no genbaku toka ron wa konomama de yoi no ka: genbaku toka wo meguru Nichi-Bei no hajimete no taiwa by Nisshin Hodo, 2015."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-312) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Harry Wray and Seishiro Sugihara transcend the one-sided Tokyo Trial view of the war in an effort to conduct a balanced exchange on historical perception. This will be of interest equally to both those inside and outside Japan who are perplexed by Japan's "victimization consciousness." Through this impassioned and heartfelt dialogue, Wray challenges theories embraced by some Japanese who believe that the US simply "used the atomic bombings to make the Soviet Union manageable in the Cold War," as alleged by the Hiroshima Peace Museum and in Japanese school history textbooks. They ask why it is the Japanese people don't recognize how the atomic bombings not only spared the further sacrifice of American and Japanese lives by accelerating the end of the war, but also prevented a wide-scale Soviet invasion of the Japanese mainland, had the war continued into the latter half of 1945. While early censorship of writings about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both outright and self-imposed, continued through the Occupation, Sugihara proposes that, long after the Americans had packed up and gone home, the Foreign Ministry established and nurtured a postwar paradigm which rendered open and critical discussion of war-related issues, such as Pearl Harbor and the atomic bombings, impossible for the Japanese public. It is no wonder then that Japanese attitudes towards the atomic bombings remain mired in victimization myths. Uniquely, Wray and Sugihara attempt to persuade the Japanese to reexamine their attitudes to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to show that the atomic bombings, perversely, brought a swift end to the war and helped Japan escape the act of partition which afflicted postwar Germany and remains an intractable problem in a divided Korea.
目次
Foreword, Miyuki Wray
Preface to the Japanese Edition
Translator's Note
Chapter 1: Descent into Inhumanity
Chapter 2: The Unconditional Surrender Formula and Limited Alternatives to Atomic Bombs: Pros and Cons
Chapter 3: The Potsdam Declaration: A Missed Opportunity By Japan To Avoid Atomic Bombings and a Soviet Entry
Chapter 4: That "Final Decisive Battle"
Chapter 5: The Role of Decrypted Messages
Chapter 6: Japan's Decision to Wage a Final Decisive Battle Produced the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, the first of the "Triple Shocks"
Chapter 7: Two Shocks in One Day
Chapter 8: Militants' Intransigent Response: Extinction before Surrender
Chapter 9: Contentious Issues Surrounding the Atomic Bombings, the Mistaken "Atomic Diplomacy" Thesis, and its Impact on Japanese Textbooks
Conclusion
Appendix A: Supplemental Commentary-Diplomacy at Start and End of Japan-US War, and Subsequent Problems
Appendix B: Regarding Wray's Examination of the Pearl Harbor Issue
Appendix C: The Historical Significance of President Obama's Visit to Hiroshima
Afterword
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