GONOSEN-II – 文学、歴史、時事問題。 とりあえず、私はこう思う。
「潮汐の間」
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific – 水子の夢 . Black-Japanese memory . Amerasian . Militarism . Pacific. Social Justic
In Japan it took over twenty years following the end of World War II before a concerted effort emerged to remember the incendiary raids carried out against most of the country’s cities. The bombings destroyed a quarter of all housing in the country, made nine million people homeless, killed an estimated 187,000 civilians, and injured 214,000 more. Due mostly to the Japanese citizens who labored to write survivor accounts, locate and preserve related documents, and analyze the destruction of urban Japan, the
Outside of Japan, the lag time to look closely at the impacts of the air raids is even more pronounced. In 1977, historian Gordon Daniels lamented the fact that academics had largely ignored the air raids on Japan – and the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raid in particular – as a subject of inquiry. While a handful of important English-language books and articles have appeared since then, most deal with the topic from the standpoint of U.S. strategic bombing doctrines and campaigns. Save for a limited amount o
We hope that further inquiry will be fostered by this digital archive, which includes public domain primary and secondary source documents, air raid survivor accounts, and analyses of the U.S. firebombing campaign against urban Japan.
GONOSEN-II – 文学、歴史、時事問題。 とりあえず、私はこう思う。
「潮汐の間」
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific – 水子の夢 . Black-Japanese memory . Amerasian . Militarism . Pacific. Social Justic