Hiroshima Imagery The Modern Mind Readings For World...

To keep a lasting, permanent peace, I want to convey the heart of ‘Hiroshima’†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Mapping the Modern Mind: Readings for World Cultures III 140). While her retelling is laden with hauntingly grotesque depictions of both the atrocities seen within the first few hours of the explosion and those seen decades later, her goal was balanced. Watanabe firmly states that her purpose it not to victimize herself or to spread hate toward the United States. In fact, her account does not place the blame on any particular country, nor does it limit the consequences of her suffering to the Japanese. Rather, Watanabe and many of the hibakusha like her, were concerned with warning against the evils of nuclear war for all of the world’s future generations. One of the challenges facing the hibakusha and the peace culture is the tendency for some Japanese to use the bombings to avoid responsibility for their aggressive behavior in World War II and the Greater East Asia War. While the hibakusha see their roles as extending beyond Japanese culture to promote general world peace, Japanese nationalism tends to â€Å"[gloss] over the suffering imposed on others during those years [of the war] while simultaneously emphasizing their own suffering† (Siegenthaler 1122). Many Japanese schools used to promote peace education by taking field trips to some of the bombing memorials, but within the last decade, the education ministry has pressured schools to switch the curriculum to one that promotes nationalismShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesKin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography Allida M. Black, ed., Modern American Queer History Eric Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American