Visualizing Nuclear Power In Japan: A Trip To The Reactor

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This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the importance of US-Japan relations were emphasized in exhibitions and in films. Despite the emergence of an anti-nuclear movement, the dream of civilian nuclear power and the “good atom” nevertheless prevailed and became more accepted. By the late 1950s, a school trip to see a reactor was becoming a reality for young Japanese, and major events such as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1970 Osaka Expo seemed to reinforce the narrative that the Japanese people were destined for a future led by science and technology that was powered by the atom, a dream that was left in disarray after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Preface......Page 7 Contents......Page 9 About the Author......Page 13 Background......Page 14 Outline of Chapters......Page 15 Bibliography......Page 23 Before Hiroshima......Page 24 Bombing of Hiroshima......Page 29 Surrender......Page 30 After Hiroshima......Page 32 Clark Goodman and Harnessing Atomic Energy......Page 33 Frances Baker and the CIE......Page 34 The America Fair......Page 36 The Kobe Fair......Page 40 The Democratization of Japan Exhibition......Page 44 Conclusion......Page 46 Bibliography......Page 52 Akamatsu Toshiko and Wartime Propaganda......Page 57 In the Aftermath of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki......Page 62 The Marukis and the Allied Occupation......Page 63 Osada Arata and Children of the Atomic Bomb......Page 68 Conclusion......Page 70 Bibliography......Page 75 Introduction......Page 78 Towards an Atomic Marshall Plan......Page 79 Atomic Energy for Everyone......Page 86 The Geneva Atomic Fair......Page 92 Atoms for Peace Exhibition......Page 93 Conclusion......Page 98 Bibliography......Page 103 Introduction......Page 106 Voyage of the Lucky Dragon......Page 107 The Family of Man......Page 110 From New York City to Tokyo......Page 113 Tokyo and Beyond......Page 119 Conclusion......Page 120 Bibliography......Page 125 Introduction......Page 128 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)......Page 129 Ashes of Death (1954)......Page 130 Gojira (Godzilla) (1954)......Page 132 The Yukawa Story (1954–1955)......Page 134 I Live in Fear (1955)......Page 137 Still, I’m Glad that I’m Alive (1956)......Page 139 Conclusion......Page 140 Bibliography......Page 142 Introduction......Page 145 Dream of Atoms for Peace......Page 146 Atoms for Peace Exhibition in Nagoya, Osaka and Hiroshima......Page 147 Nuclear Infrastructure......Page 151 Christopher Hinton and the Calder Hall Reactor......Page 153 Atoms for Peace in Hiroshima......Page 155 Nuclear Salesmanship......Page 157 Grand Exhibition of the Reconstruction of Hiroshima......Page 164 Japan International Trade Fair, Osaka......Page 165 Expo'58......Page 166 Conclusion......Page 170 Bibliography......Page 178 Introduction......Page 182 Visiting Tōkai-mura......Page 184 School Children at Tōkai-mura......Page 187 Reactors at Department Stores......Page 191 Third Tokyo International Trade Fair, 1959......Page 192 Science Films: Reactors under Construction......Page 194 Conclusion......Page 198 Bibliography......Page 202 Introduction......Page 204 1964 Tokyo Olympics......Page 206 Expo'70......Page 210 Commencement of Construction of a Calder Hall Reactor in North Korea 1980......Page 216 Plutonium Boy......Page 218 Nuclear Accidents......Page 221 Fukushima......Page 223 Shin Godzilla......Page 227 Changed Attitudes to Nuclear Power......Page 228 Tokyo 2020 Olympics......Page 230 Osaka Expo 2025......Page 231 Conclusion......Page 232 Bibliography......Page 244 Looking Back......Page 253 Visual Activism......Page 255 Cute Direct Action......Page 256 Bibliography......Page 258 Index......Page 260