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Naoko Wake, American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Naoko Wake, American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki adds a new element to the transnational (cross-national) nature of the historiography of the atomic bombings, focusing on the hibakusha (atomic survivors) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States. This monograph, a “counter-memory of the bomb” (p. 2), draws upon 130 interviews with both Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the bombings, as well as with Korean survivors in both Japan and Korea insofar as they “interacted meaningfully with their American counterparts” (p. 9).For many years, discussions and recollections about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have emphasized a solely Japanese narrative, which often suggests that these bombings victimized Japan itself even though the attacks occurred at the end of the aggressive war Japan had waged. The American remembering of the bombings has been vastly different, emphasizing how the bombings constituted a necessary “evil.” Modern scholars have contested both narratives and the “survivors” of Wake’s book also resist such a reductionist history.Especially from the 1980s, historians, activists, and survivors have shown how the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not confined to the Japanese Archipelago. In fact, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Naoko Wake, American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

McClelland, Gwyn
Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 30 (1): 3 – Mar 29, 2023
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1058-3947
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10.1163/18765610-29040006
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American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki adds a new element to the transnational (cross-national) nature of the historiography of the atomic bombings, focusing on the hibakusha (atomic survivors) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States. This monograph, a “counter-memory of the bomb” (p. 2), draws upon 130 interviews with both Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the bombings, as well as with Korean survivors in both Japan and Korea insofar as they “interacted meaningfully with their American counterparts” (p. 9).For many years, discussions and recollections about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have emphasized a solely Japanese narrative, which often suggests that these bombings victimized Japan itself even though the attacks occurred at the end of the aggressive war Japan had waged. The American remembering of the bombings has been vastly different, emphasizing how the bombings constituted a necessary “evil.” Modern scholars have contested both narratives and the “survivors” of Wake’s book also resist such a reductionist history.Especially from the 1980s, historians, activists, and survivors have shown how the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not confined to the Japanese Archipelago. In fact, the

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Published: Mar 29, 2023

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