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Articulations of the Nuclear

Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age

Stephan Köhn, Katharina Hülsmann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 382 Seiten

2024
Harrassowitz Verlag
978-3-447-12199-6 (ISBN)

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The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 marked the beginning of a new era: the atomic age. Nuclear power has always been an extremely sensitive matter in Japan, and this is hardly surprising given that the Japanese and, subsequently, American government censored information regarding its destructive power. So, while "evil" energy was successfully consigned to oblivion until the end of the allied occupation in 1952, "good" energy was enthusiastically encouraged by the government one short year later in the wake of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous Atoms for Peace-speech. Needless to say that the discursive division of the atom led to a division in society: on the one hand, those who were still suffering from the consequences of the bomb and on the other, those who were now striving for a new, comfortable middle-class life.The contributions examine the various forms of articulation of nuclear power - and the various actors involved from the early post-war period to the present day. They attempt to work out that the peaceful and the destructive power of the atom are two sides of the same coin. The triple disaster at Fukushima in 2011 made this all too clear and ultimately exposed the national myth of nuclear safety that had lulled post-war Japanese society into a false sense of security. A thorough reexamination of Japan's nuclear fallacy is needed now more than ever.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Kulturwissenschaftliche Japanstudien ; 13
Zusatzinfo	24 ill., 2 diagrams, 3 tables
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	812 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Schlagworte	Atomare Bedrohung • Atombombenabwurf • atomic bomb • Atomzeitalter • Fukushima • Hiroshima • Japan/Architektur • Japan/Atomic age • Japan/History • Japan/Literaturwissenschaft • Japanologie • Japan/Politics • Japan/Publizistik • Manga • Nuclear Accident • Nuclear power • Ōta Yōko • Tange Kenz • Tange Kenzō • ta Y ko • Tsushima Yuko • Tsushima Yūko
ISBN-10	3-447-12199-8 / 3447121998
ISBN-13	978-3-447-12199-6 / 9783447121996
Zustand	Neuware