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

Shedding new light on Japan's pacifism and Hiroshima's role in it, Yuasa investigates the events of post-war Japan and how it catalysed a range of challenges to public sentiment.

List of contents

List of abbreviations
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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Masae Yuasa, Masae (Hiroshima City University Yuasa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780367542009
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54200-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls