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Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2012

Yoshimi Shun'ya  and
Shi-Lin Loh
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With the earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the expanding nuclear disaster that followed, our “affluent postwar” has finally reached a decisive end. Indeed, this closure had been clearly augured since the 1990s. The collapse of the bubble economy, the close of an era of single-party rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and Aum Shinrikyō sarin gas attacks that came in rapid succession in 1995—these events forced upon us the reality that the “affluent postwar” was over.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 319 - 331
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012

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Further References

A brief list of some other useful scholarship, primarily in English, on (I) nuclear power in Japan and (II) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Aldrich, Daniel. 2008. Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
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Yoneyama, Lisa. 1999. Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Arima, Tetsuo. 2008. 原発・正力・CIA: 機密文書で読む昭和裏面史 [Genpatsu Shōriki CIA: kimitsu bunsho de yomu Shōwa rimenshi - Nuclear Power, Shōriki and the CIA: Reading The Shōwa Period's Secret History From Classified Documents] Tokyo: Shinchōsha.Google Scholar
Imai, Ryūkichi. 1070. “Japan and the Nuclear Age.” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (June):35–9.Google Scholar
Low, Morris. 2005. Science and the Building of a New Japan. New York: Palgrave.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yoshioka, Hitoshi. 2005. “Forming a Nuclear Regime and Introducing Commercial Reactors” and “Nuclear Power Research and the Scientists' Role.” A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Road to Self-reliance, 1952–59. Eds. Shigeru Nakayama, Kunio Gotō, and Yoshioka, Hitoshi, 80–124. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.Google Scholar
Dower, John. 1995. “The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory,” Diplomatic History 19(2):275–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Orr, James. 2001. The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.Google Scholar
Yoneyama, Lisa. 1999. Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Online Resources

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