Presentation materials
Sorry for the ‘technical difficulty’ today. Here are the websites that I wanted to show:
1. David Rothauer’s interview film:
http://memoryproductions.org/ourlifetolive.mov
*pop quiz: What does he say about Japanese youth’s interest in hibakusha and his film? Where, in his opinion, is the “real” problem of the way Japanese learn/remember the war?
2. Association of Citizens for Supporting South Korean Atomic Victims
http://www.hiroshima-cdas.or.jp/home/yuu/zaikanen.htm
*see the explanation of how Korean people came to Japan under the “Activities” (in Japanese) –they were directly or indirectly forced to come (yamu wo ezu=unavoidably, necessarily).
*Also, the organization seems to be started and supported by Japanese, not Koreans themselves. I mixed up with another org.
3. Abolishment of the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Directive 402: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200702070155.html
4. Joseph Gerson (the author of “Empire and the Bomb”):
http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/1298/declead5.htm
US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: http://www.wslfweb.org/abolition/uswg.htm
Stonewalk Japan 2005:
http://www.stonewalk.org/japan/japan.html
5. Please give me info. about how you learned about “hibakusha” and/or Hiroshima/Nagasaki in highschool.
I first learned about Hiroshima and Nagaski in elementary school, in books about the children. I never forgot pictures of children screaming and looking for their mother, and feeling horrible if that ever happened to me. I would talk to my mother about how sad it was for their families, keeping in mind my own and thinking about how we would be affected by a nuclear bomb attack.
In high school I learned very basic, straightforward facts from my US History class on WWII.
I didn’t start thinking about the broader scope of hibakusha until college.
Comment by memorygongs — April 26, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Thank you Patrick. ny
Comment by Anonymous — April 26, 2007 @ 6:39 pm