Shadows of Nagasaki

Chad R. Diehl received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2011, specializing in modern Japanese history. He has researched the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and its aftermath since 2003 and published his first monograph, Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives, with Cornell University Press in 2018.

Note on Japanese Names xi Introduction: Imagining Nagasaki: Religion and History in Postatomic Memoryscapes Chad R. Diehl 1 Part I: Catholic Responses The "Saint" of Urakami: Nagai Takashi and Early Representations of the Atomic Experience Chad R. Diehl 33 Loving Your Neighbor across the Sea: The Reception of the Work of Nagai Takashi in the Republic of Korea Haeseong Park and Franklin Rausch 70 Faith, Family, Earth, and the Atomic Bomb in the Art of Nagai Takashi Anthony Richard Haynes 93 "Love Saves from Isolation": Ozaki ToAmei and His Journey from Nagasaki to Auschwitz and Back Gwyn McClelland 112 Part II: Literature and Testimony "Nagasaki" in Akutagawa Ryu+/-nosuke's Taisho-Era Literary Imagination Anri Yasuda 131 Lambs of God, Ravens of Death, Rafts of Corpses: Three Visions of Trauma in Nagasaki Survivor Poetry Chad R. Diehl 151 Listening to the Dead and Filling the Void: The Prayer and Activism of Akizuki Tatsuichiro Maika Nakao 179 Breaking New Ground in Nagasaki: Seirai Yuichi's Ground Zero Literature Michele M. Mason 191 Part III: Sites of Memory Fragmented Memory: The Scattering of the Urakami Cathedral Ruins among Nagasaki's Memorial Landscape Anna Gasha 215 One Fine Day: The Allied Occupation of Nagasaki and "Madame Butterfly House" Brian Burke-Gaffney 243 The Titan and the Arch:Regulating Public Memory through the Peace Statue Nanase Shirokawa 264 Part IV: Reflections How I Came to Criticize Nagai Takashi's Urakami Holocaust Theory Shinji Takahashi 295 On Rereleasing The Bells of Nagasaki to the World Tokusaburo Nagai 312 Acknowledgments 319 List of Contributors 323 Index 327

Thanks to multidisciplinary approaches, Shadows of Nagasaki situates the historiography of the atomic bombing in a broader context of Nagasaki history and beyond, which demonstrates a new approach to memory-making practice.---Yuki Miyamoto, Professor at Depaul University, and author of Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima