Month: September 2017
The “Family of Man”
After World War II which had been preceded by the First World War, the “World” was ready to take a break from hostility. In the postwar period the United Nations was used to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 to prevent ethnic squabbles such as the ones that caused the war. […]
Subtle Rewards
(Two of the Hiroshima Maidens) After World War II, Europe and East Asia were under reconstruction as a result of massive destruction of infrastructure and, in the case of Japan, the atomic bombs. The U.S. played a major role in the reconstruction initiatives, specifically with economic policies, such as the U.S. Marshall Plan. The …
Aftermath of the Atom Bomb
When I think of the end of WWII, images of confetti raining from the sky and soldiers riding on floats in victory parades pops into my mind. However, for the people of Hiroshima, Japan their world lay in ruin. The Continue reading Aftermath of the Atom Bomb→
#3 Japanese Rehabilitation
World War 2 brought destruction to many countries of the world, but none were affected quite as uniquely as the nation of Japan. The dropping of the atomic bombs completely changed history, and forced Japan to rehabilitate from an unprecedented event of immense destruction. This topic has led many historians to consider the ramifications … Continue reading →
Postwar Rehabilitation
In his chapter “Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens” from his book Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America, David Serlin argues that the 1950s event that brought Japanese women to the United States for reconstructive plastic surgery should be seen as a product of the influence of the Western powers on how the Japanese people reconstructed their …
Japan, the Nuclear Age, and its Public History
Image is Nagasaki, not Hiroshima, oops.
The Exploitative of Veterans and Soldiers
The United States government has one motive; protecting America at all cost. The picture above is a reminder that the government will shape things to their liking. That often means making the hardest decisions from dropping atomic bombs to giving drugs to soldiers. Afterwards to lessen the severity the government shapes the story. Media has […]
Nuclear Surgery: Post-War Japan
As Japanese soldiers lied in wait of an impending invasion by Russians, Chinese, and American soldiers, they were, most of them, united by their national fervor for the emperor and Japan. Many of them had trudged through some of the most gruesome battles of the war and had not even heard the news of the …
Wages of Destruction: Reconstructing the Japanese.
World War II was a war that changed the world entirely. Some places lay in ruins. Some places were victorious. However, the places that were in ruins faced a long road to recovery. One that even today in 2017, people are still on. World War II introduced weapons the world had never seen …
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Perspectives of War
In every war there is always a multitude of perspectives. World War II was no different, particularly in regard to the US use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the traditional US opinion is that dropping the bombs was a necessary evil that eventually saved more lives than it took, the Japanese however, […]
