Yuko Takahashi

Korean Nuclear Diaspora

Redress Movements of Korean Atomic-Bomb Victims in Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history of how Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombings have sought redress, examining how Korean victims have struggled to achieve recognition and support for themselves and their compatriots in Japan and the two Koreas, while being significantly constrained by colonialism, nationalism, and the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781666935752
• ISBN-10: 1666935751
• Artikelnr.: 71775302

Autorenporträt

Yuko Takahashi

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Koreans in Japan before the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Chapter 2: Korean Nuclear Diaspora in Japan, South Korea, and North Korea
Chapter 3: Bridges over the Korea Strait: Medical Assistance for hibakusha
in South Korea
Chapter 4: Compatriot Victims in Two Homelands: A Redress Movement of North
Koreans in Japan
Chapter 5: Unity within Disunity, Disunity within Unity: Korean hibakusha
Divided over Ideologies
Chapter 6: Engraving the History of Korean Atomic-bomb Victims:
Inter-Korean and Korean-Japanese Disputes over Monuments