Korean Nuclear Diaspora - Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-Bomb Victims in Japan

This book explores the history of how Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombings have sought redress, examining how Korean victims have struggled to achieve recognition and support for themselves and their compatriots in Japan and the two Koreas, while being significantly constrained by colonialism, nationalism, and the Cold War.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Koreans in Japan before the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Chapter 2: Korean Nuclear Diaspora in Japan, South Korea, and North Korea
Chapter 3: Bridges over the Korea Strait: Medical Assistance for hibakusha in South Korea
Chapter 4: Compatriot Victims in Two Homelands: A Redress Movement of North Koreans in Japan
Chapter 5: Unity within Disunity, Disunity within Unity: Korean hibakusha Divided over Ideologies
Chapter 6: Engraving the History of Korean Atomic-bomb Victims: Inter-Korean and Korean-Japanese Disputes over Monuments

About the author

Yuko Takahashi is research fellow at the Research Center for Human Rights, Osaka Metropolitan University.

Product details

• Authors: Yuko Takahashi, Yuko Takahashi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666935752
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-575-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Korean Communities across the World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies