Bridging the Atomic Divide (eBook)
340 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9322-9 (ISBN)
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.
Harry Wray (1931–2017) taught history in Japan for nearly three decades, most recently at Aichi Mizuho College.Seishiro Sugihara is former professor of history at Josai University.
Foreword, Miyuki WrayPreface to the Japanese EditionTranslator’s NoteChapter 1: Descent into InhumanityChapter 2: The Unconditional Surrender Formula and Limited Alternatives to Atomic Bombs: Pros and ConsChapter 3: The Potsdam Declaration: A Missed Opportunity By Japan To Avoid Atomic Bombings and a Soviet EntryChapter 4: That “Final Decisive Battle”Chapter 5: The Role of Decrypted MessagesChapter 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 DayChapter 8: Militants’ Intransigent Response: Extinction before SurrenderChapter 9: Contentious Issues Surrounding the Atomic Bombings, the Mistaken “Atomic Diplomacy” Thesis, and its Impact on Japanese TextbooksConclusionAppendix A: Supplemental Commentary—Diplomacy at Start and End of Japan-US War, and Subsequent ProblemsAppendix B: Regarding Wray’s Examination of the Pearl Harbor IssueAppendix C: The Historical Significance of President Obama’s Visit to HiroshimaAfterword
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.11.2018 |
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Übersetzer | Norman Hu |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | Atomic bombings • Hiroshima • Japanese history • Nagasaki • Potsdam • Truman |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9322-4 / 1498593224 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9322-9 / 9781498593229 |
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