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An extremely important exploration of modern Japan and the role of postwar Japanese thought and religiosity seen in a global setting. -Steven Heine, Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University ...a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II. -Midwest Book Review It offers insights into how we might achieve a world that can remember without bitterness and anger as well as one without the looming threat of nuclear weapons. -Catholic Library World

.. .a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II. -Midwest Book Review This profound work is heuristic and its aim is good. -H-net Reviews It offers insights into how we might achieve a world that can remember without bitterness and anger as well as one without the looming threat of nuclear weapons. -Catholic Library World Religious studies professor Miyamoto presents a thoughtful, scholarly examination of how the Japanese people remember and memorialize the terrible loss of human life in the atomic bombings of August 1945 and addresses the question of how the horror of the atom bomb should be remembered. - Choice An extremely important exploration of modern Japan and the role of postwar Japanese thought and religiosity seen in a global setting. -Steven Heine, Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University This imaginative and deeply thoughtful book explores a rarely asked question: How does being victimized challenge individuals ethically? Miyamoto explores the ethical and religious resources that Japanese atomic-bomb victims (hibakusha) have deployed to make sense of their experiences and guide their efforts to live good lives after surviving such a shattering event. -Laura Hein, Northwestern University 'Beyond the Mushroom Cloud' provides a multifaceted account of efforts, and failures, to come to grips with a unique historical trauma. One is left with the impression that a fully satisfactory integration of the bombings into a historical or ethical version has not been achieved, or perhaps cannot be achieved. -Monumenta Nipponica This book promises to generate substantive conversations about how to formulate genuinely self-critical ethical dispositions that remember Japan's horrific past as a means of moving beyond conflicts in the present, and its expansive reach across regional and disciplinary boundaries serves as a model for imaginative research. -Journal of Japanese Studies

...a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II. -Midwest Book Review It offers insights into how we might achieve a world that can remember without bitterness and anger as well as one without the looming threat of nuclear weapons. -Catholic Library World

<br>. ..a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II. -Midwest Book Review<p><br>

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Yuki Miyamoto is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.

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