Korean Nuclear Diaspora: Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-Bomb Victims in Japan: Korean Communities across the World
Autor Yuko Takahashien Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2024
After Japan's defeat and Korea's liberation, the survivors of the nuclear bombings were dispersed across Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, where many remained marginalized and largely excluded from official relief efforts. Focusing on those in Japan, Yuko Takahashi draws on extensive fieldwork, archival research, and interviews to examine how survivors and activists mobilized for redress despite formidable political barriers.
Organized thematically and historically, the chapters trace the prewar history of Koreans in Japan, the formation of a "nuclear diaspora" across divided national contexts, and the development of cross-border support networks. Takahashi also explores the complexities of activism shaped by ideological divisions - between North and South Korea, within the Korean community in Japan, and in relation to Japanese society - alongside conflicts over memorialization and public recognition. At the same time, the book highlights moments of solidarity, including cooperation between Korean and Japanese citizens and a shared aspiration for national reconciliation that sustained the movement.
Ultimately, this book challenges dominant narratives of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by foregrounding marginalized voices, showing that the pursuit of redress is not only about compensation, but about reclaiming history by confronting the legacies of war, colonialism, and political division.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781666935752
ISBN-10: 1666935751
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 4 BW Photos, 3 Tables, 1 Map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Korean Communities across the World
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1666935751
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 4 BW Photos, 3 Tables, 1 Map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Korean Communities across the World
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
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
References
Index
About the Author
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
References
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
Takahashi outlines the complex links between Zainichi hibakusha, Japanese hibakusha, and Korean hibakusha in North and South Korea.
Korean Nuclear Diaspora: Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-Bomb Victims in Japan is a major contribution to our understanding of Korean hibakusha who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It is especially strong in documenting the international aspects of Koreans affected by these catastrophes. All readers will gain a new understanding of Koreans who suffered from the atomic bombings and who responded by creating diverse movements for recognition and justice.
That approximately one-third of those who perished in the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were of Korean descent was not widely known in the Anglophone world until the 1990s. Korean Nuclear Diaspora provides a detailed ethnographic account that updates our knowledge about Zainichi Korean hibakushas, i.e. those hibakushas (the irradiated/bombed) of Korean descent who have been minoritized yet integral to postwar, postcolonial Japan.
The first book-length study in English dedicated to the Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings, Korean Nuclear Diaspora reveals how Koreans colonized by the Japanese and victimized by the U.S. weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaski have grappled with the shifting exigency of the long Cold War. Drawing on the little-known experiences of Korean survivors in both North and South Koreas as well as in Japan, Yuko Takahashi presents a compelling picture of grassroots organizations and key individuals who led an extraordinary international activism toward a better recognition of and unity over the survivors' multifaceted suffering.
One of the neglected stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the presence of tens of thousands of Koreans on August 6th and 9th. Korean Nuclear Diaspora traces the journeys that brought these hibakusha to Japan, and their later struggles for redress in Japan as well as South and North Korea. Takahashi details how mechanisms of individual and communal identity construction, subjected to and resisting pressures from colonialism and Cold War politics, channeled the movements of Korean hibakusha for recognition, compensation, and dignity. Histories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can no longer exclude this hidden chapter.
Though this is the story of Koreans in Japan struggling with colonialism, ethnic competition, and the atomic bombings, Takahashi offers insight into how people think, how they feel, and how, as a result, societies work. The specific social issues related to colonialism, the war, the bombings, ethnic conflicts, and ideological conflicts are important. Anyone, especially any historian, interested in the effects of the atomic bombings on society should read this book. Anyone interested in imperialism and ethnic competition should read this book. But at a more universal level, anyone interested in intense social conflict and the potential for resolution should study this book carefully. Through extremely careful, thorough, and microscopically detailed research and writing, Takahashi has performed an enormous service to humanity.
Lee Sil-guen was a second generation Zainichi Korean (a Korean living in Japan), surviving by trading rice on the black market in August of 1945. To return to his home he had to pass through Hiroshima, a city leveled and irradiated by nuclear attack, and in doing so he developed radiation sickness-and he assumed a new identity, that of hibakusha, a person affected by the atomic bomb. But this is only the start of the story. Lee became an advocate for people like himself, especially those who retained loyalty to North Korea or who lived there in the years following the Korean War. This remarkable, complicated story of the identities made and remade by nuclear war is just one of many lives that animate Yuko Takahashi's essential new book about the Korean hibakusha, living in Japan and on both sides of the 38th parallel. Based on original sources in Korean, English, and Japanese, Takahashi's scholarship shows the depth of understanding necessary to follow the tangled lives and politics of disaster survivors-survivors whose political goals and personal dreams for recovery reflect every nuance of east Asian cold war complexity.
Korean Nuclear Diaspora: Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-Bomb Victims in Japan is a major contribution to our understanding of Korean hibakusha who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It is especially strong in documenting the international aspects of Koreans affected by these catastrophes. All readers will gain a new understanding of Koreans who suffered from the atomic bombings and who responded by creating diverse movements for recognition and justice.
That approximately one-third of those who perished in the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were of Korean descent was not widely known in the Anglophone world until the 1990s. Korean Nuclear Diaspora provides a detailed ethnographic account that updates our knowledge about Zainichi Korean hibakushas, i.e. those hibakushas (the irradiated/bombed) of Korean descent who have been minoritized yet integral to postwar, postcolonial Japan.
The first book-length study in English dedicated to the Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings, Korean Nuclear Diaspora reveals how Koreans colonized by the Japanese and victimized by the U.S. weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaski have grappled with the shifting exigency of the long Cold War. Drawing on the little-known experiences of Korean survivors in both North and South Koreas as well as in Japan, Yuko Takahashi presents a compelling picture of grassroots organizations and key individuals who led an extraordinary international activism toward a better recognition of and unity over the survivors' multifaceted suffering.
One of the neglected stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the presence of tens of thousands of Koreans on August 6th and 9th. Korean Nuclear Diaspora traces the journeys that brought these hibakusha to Japan, and their later struggles for redress in Japan as well as South and North Korea. Takahashi details how mechanisms of individual and communal identity construction, subjected to and resisting pressures from colonialism and Cold War politics, channeled the movements of Korean hibakusha for recognition, compensation, and dignity. Histories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can no longer exclude this hidden chapter.
Though this is the story of Koreans in Japan struggling with colonialism, ethnic competition, and the atomic bombings, Takahashi offers insight into how people think, how they feel, and how, as a result, societies work. The specific social issues related to colonialism, the war, the bombings, ethnic conflicts, and ideological conflicts are important. Anyone, especially any historian, interested in the effects of the atomic bombings on society should read this book. Anyone interested in imperialism and ethnic competition should read this book. But at a more universal level, anyone interested in intense social conflict and the potential for resolution should study this book carefully. Through extremely careful, thorough, and microscopically detailed research and writing, Takahashi has performed an enormous service to humanity.
Lee Sil-guen was a second generation Zainichi Korean (a Korean living in Japan), surviving by trading rice on the black market in August of 1945. To return to his home he had to pass through Hiroshima, a city leveled and irradiated by nuclear attack, and in doing so he developed radiation sickness-and he assumed a new identity, that of hibakusha, a person affected by the atomic bomb. But this is only the start of the story. Lee became an advocate for people like himself, especially those who retained loyalty to North Korea or who lived there in the years following the Korean War. This remarkable, complicated story of the identities made and remade by nuclear war is just one of many lives that animate Yuko Takahashi's essential new book about the Korean hibakusha, living in Japan and on both sides of the 38th parallel. Based on original sources in Korean, English, and Japanese, Takahashi's scholarship shows the depth of understanding necessary to follow the tangled lives and politics of disaster survivors-survivors whose political goals and personal dreams for recovery reflect every nuance of east Asian cold war complexity.