1st Edition

Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan Hiroshima's Anti-nuclear Social Movements

By Masae Yuasa Copyright 2024
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? The Japanese government has claimed it is doubling its defense spending and has announced a plan to equip itself with the capability to “counterattack” enemy bases overseas, a departure from the nation’s postwar consensus. Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and Hiroshima’s role in it, Yuasa investigates the events of postwar Japan and how it catalyzed a range... Read more

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: competing and merging pacifist imaginaries in postwar Japan

1 Emerging constitutional pacifism

2 Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident and anti-nuclear and nuclear pacifism

3 Survivors’ parallel worlds

4 Start of Hiroshima’s anti-nuclear movement and Moritaki’s anti-nuclear imaginary

5 Movement to save survivors

6 Peace administration and institutionalized Hiroshima Heart

7 Hibakusha as storytellers

8 Hibakusha self-help movement challenging the state aid regime

9 Anti-nuclear power movement

10 Reviving constitutional pacifism in Hiroshima

11 Fukushima accident and its impact on Hiroshima

12 Post-Fukushima Hiroshima movements challenging Hiroshima pacifism

13 Hiroshima caught between proactive pacifism and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Conclusion: pacifism as imaginary and institution

Index

Biography

Masae Yuasa is a sociologist teaching in the Faculty of International Studies of Hiroshima City University, Japan. She is interested in the politics of radiation, and her related work in English includes ‘The Future of August 6th 1945’ (The Study of Time XIV, 2013, BRILL).