#Hibakusha

[dramoor]

"God has never said you have to perform great deeds for your country and humanity to have lived well Where would that leave all the sick people in the world? Look at me, for instance, needing assistance all the time. You wouldn't say that we sick and bedridden of the world are 'useful'! But usefulness is not the point. Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in and go on living lovingly....Our talents and handicaps may differ greatly, but we are all equal in this: each of us is born to manifest God's glory; to know, love and serve him here below and share in his eternal life after death...if you make the vital decision to live humbly and lovingly, you will live fruitful lives and be happy."

~Takashi Nagai

(Image taken in 1946 while mourning for his wife - Public domain)

#Christian #Catholic faith #usefulness is not the point of life #living lovingly is the point of life #accept God's providence with grace #Takashi Nagai #hibakusha #physician #Atomic Bomb survivor #Nagasaki Japan #talents #handicaps #humility #we are born to manifest God's glory #know love serve God

[conformi]

“Hibakusha” (people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), clothing pattern burnt on to the back and arm of the victim VS Issey Miyake, SS 1995, photo by Platon

#Hibakusha #hiroshima #nagasaki #japan #atomic bomb #atomic war #issey miyake #fashion #clothing #pattern #shoeprint #shoe #shirt #clothes #Radiation #nuclear explosion #second world war #wwii

[ricisidro]

New #Oppenheimer poster in #Japan, the biographical film winner of 7 #Oscars will finally be released in Japanese theaters on March 29 after almost a full year of its theatrical released in the US and Europe.

To the nationalists in Japan, Oppenheimer is the man responsible for the creation of the weapon used to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

About 140,000.people died in #Hiroshima and 74,000 in #Nagasaki when the #US dropped #atomicbombs in these cities at the end of #WW2.

#radiation #nuclear #hibakusha

#oppenheimer #poster #Japan #Oscars #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #atomic bombs #US #WW2 #radiation #nuclear #hibakusha

[acuorleggero]

Che nome dai all’orrore?

Gli americani hanno tanti difetti però con i soprannomi ci sanno fare. Si applicano, si ingegnano e alla fine affibbiano sempre il nomignolo giusto. 

Ad esempio, se la bomba di Hiroshima avevano scelto di chiamarla "Little Boy", un simpatico vezzeggiativo, quella che sganciarono il 9 agosto 1945 su Nagasaki decisero di battezzarla "Fat Man".Il bodyshaming sarebbe arrivato molto dopo, ma bisogna dire che come nomi di un improbabile ma ben assortito duo "Little Boy" e "Fat Man" erano decisamente perfetti. 

Nel volgere di poco più di 72 ore il ragazzino e l'uomo grasso cancellarono dalla faccia della Terra più di 250.000 persone.

I giapponesi chiamarono i superstiti hibakusha (被爆者) una parola che significa letteralmente "persona esposta alla bomba". Durante il periodo post-bellico si utilizzò questo termine al posto di "sopravvissuti" per non esaltare la vita, cosa che all'epoca sarebbe stato considerato come una grave mancanza di rispetto nei confronti dei molti morti. 

Se agli americani non manca la fantasia, ai giapponesi non è mai mancato il pudore.

#Nuclear #Nuke #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #bomb #hibakusha

[loeilafaim]

Oublier Fukushima

S’il y a un nouveau livre de référence sur cette catastrophe qui ne cesse d’avoir lieu, seconde après seconde, c’est bien Oublier Fukushima, paru aux Editions du bout de la ville. Il est signé par Julie Aigoin, Pierre E. Guérinet et Floréal Klein, qui s’effacent derrière le nom d’Arkadi Filine : c’est l’un des 800 000 liquidateurs auquel Svetlana Alexievitch donne la parole dans sa terrible…

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#Alain Gras #Arkadi Filine #capitalisme thermo-industriel #Charles Gibrin #Editions du bout de la ville #Elisabeth Filhol #Floréal Klein #Fukushima Daiichi #hibakusha #Jean-Marc Royer #Julie Aigoin #La Centrale #La Supplication #Le choix du feu #Le monde comme projet Manhattan #Manuel de défense civile #mouvements antinucléaires #nucléocratie #Oublier Fukushima #Pierre E. Guérinet #Shinzo Abé #Svetlana Alexievitch #Tepco

[kathleenburkinshaw]

Will I see the Oppenheimer Film?

(C)India Today Will I see the Oppenheimer film? My answer – NO! I have no issues with the director, Christopher Nolan, as a person, nor toward the talented actors. Do I hope people who haven’t considered nuclear weapons a current threat before, will now make nuclear disarmament part of their conversations (along with the demons plaguing a brilliant physicist during/after he developed the atomic…

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#atomic bomb #Barbenheimer #Barbie #Barbiemovie #Boppenheimer #Hibakusha #Hiroshima #Japan #Oppenheimer #peace #The Last Cherry Blossom #WWII

[opisthotonos]

#hibakusha

[opensky-tom]

I didn't expect so much from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, but there seem to have been a fruit of the representatives of two neighboring nations getting together and standing side by side according to the article. It's meaningful to me to get over the rough sea and shake hands. If to put in a single word, maybe it's "understanding".

#Group of Seven summit 2023 #Hiroshima #ethnic Koreans #Hibakusha #Peace

[omnivorouscinephilia]

Children of Hiroshima: The Foundation for Hibakusha Cinema

A criticism Oppenheimer faces is it fails to showcase a Japanese perspective on the bomb. We as critics should take it upon ourselves to highlight such works. With that, here is a review of Children of Hisoshima, an early work from Kaneto Shindō. Enjoy!

There’s a popular misconception that Gojira, Ishiro Honda’s kaiju masterpiece, was the first Japanese film meant to be an aesthetic reaction and articulation of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and therefore nuclear anxieties. While true that it was one of the first films made by Japanese filmmakers after the post-war American occupation which forbade depictions of the bombings, it would be…

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#Akira Ifukube #Arata Osada #Children of Hiroshima #Children of the Atomic Bomb #Classic Releases #Drama #Film Reviews #Gojira #hibakusha cinema #Hideo Sekigawa #Hiroshima #History #Ishiro Honda #Japan Teachers Union #Kaneto Shindō #Kuroneko #Miwa Saitō #Nobuko Otowa #Onibaba #Osamu Takizawa #Takashi Itō #Takeo Itô #Zenju Imaizumi

[space-blue]

Not that many care about my opinion on the topic, but I cannot comprehend the takes I've seen on Oppenheimer prior to viewing the film.

I'm just out of the cinema and I cannooooot believe that I've heard and seen people complain about the "Americans clapping" scene as not sensitive, and that it should have shown the bombs dropped and the damage done. I've read takes that came down to 'the film is PRAISING the bomb by refusing to show its damage' and holy shit I was bracing myself.

But not only is the clapping scene shot like the genre just switched to horror, plunging us into very interesting exploration of the mental dissonance Oppenheimer is going through at that moment... I was left wondering...

Have those critics not seen Grave of the Fireflies? Barefoot Gen? In This Corner of the World? Watched documentaries on the bombs, on hibakushas? Have they not read the Hiroshima book by John Hersey that collects horrifying first hand accounts of Hiroshima survivors?

Have they stepped into the theatre with no background understanding of the atomic bomb and the horrors it carried?

Because this entire scene, actually much of Oppenheimer's mindset post bomb drop, DEPENDS on the public's understanding of WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE CLAPPING FOR. They're clapping for their project completion, for their victory, and for unknown amount of dead people. And WE KNOW that they are clapping for some of the most horrifying shit ever. We know they're clapping the cold war and nuclear proliferation's birth.

The film relies on you understanding this! The film depends on you activating your neurons and putting 2 and 2 together.

The film treats the audience as adults who don't need to see dead civilians to EMPATHISE for those civilians. You're also meant to be alienated from these cheering scientists, just as you can't help understanding why they're cheering.

It makes sense yet it's awful. Dissonance.

If you need your hand held so bad to understand why the bomb is a great evil, no matter how necessary it might have felt, when watching a biopic, then maybe you should have stuck to Barbie only, as that film was fun but significantly less challenging.

Also damn but Gary Oldman as Truman was so terrific, this guy really is a million faces.

#oppenheimer #snips talks

[hagire-nunokire]

NO BARBENHEIMER

I find it very upsetting that there are so many stupid people out there enjoying the Birbenheimer meme and I fear for the future of this world.(As the context shows, I am criticising memes that consume the atomic bomb. I am not simply accusing people of hustling two films. Well, I also don't understand those who continue to use the term Barbenheimer, which has been hijacked by mushroom clouds.)

It is true that the Japanese military committed many atrocities and there were citizens who supported them, but that does not mean that it is okay to drop such horrible weapons. The bombed areas were where the citizens lived. It is the citizens, not the military, who have suffered from this damage. Among the Hibakusha(A-bomb victim) were newborn babies and small children, as well as Korean and Chinese residents in Japan. And, of course, the captured Allied soldiers. In Nagasaki it was dropped right over the church. And not only people, but also plants, trees, fish, dogs and cats died. Those who were near the blast centre were scattered by the blast and disappeared as if they had evaporated, leaving their shadows on the ground and walls like stains. Those who were barely breathing, their skin blistered and moaning for water, jumped into the river, which in turn filled up with dead people. Some eyeballs were spilling out due to the intense heat rays. Nuclear weapons are very frightening. Many others have also sacrificed their lives for nuclear development. And some people still suffer from its aftereffects to this day.

Have you ever seen a photograph of an hibakusha? Have you ever seen a photograph in which the shadow of the hibakusha remains as a stain? If not, then look at reality. Then you won't be able to call this meme just a joke.

It is necessary for the Wajin people to reflect on the atrocious and diabolical acts of the past, and it is equally necessary to criticise the terrible weapons that some countries still possess today. Don't do whataboutism.

The Japanese Government seems to have forgotten not only the atrocities of the past, but also the horror of the atomic bomb. This is extremely frightening. Please put an end to this ridiculous meme now.

Imagine how many people actually collapse and groan under the pink mushroom cloud, the people who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the indigenous people who lived on the land where the nuclear tests were carried out. That weapons exist in this world today and that the tragedy could once again visit anyone anywhere.

Feminists, you haven't forgotten the American culture that has frivolously associated female eroticism with weapons (why do you call a bikini a bikini, women in mushroom cloud costumes), have you? Despite Barbie's attempts to destroy the image of the silly blonde woman, the official Twitter account is positive about this meme. Join us in saying NO.

全ての戦争に反対し、核兵器の廃絶を願う一市民としてこのミームを許しません。

p.s. This text may be difficult to read. I've rewritten and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten again and again because I can't stop being indignant.

#nobarbenheimer #barbenheimer #oppenheimer #barbie #barbie movie

[icedsodapop]

Literally! 226,000 civillians died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and as of 2022, 118,935 hibakusha (explosion-affected people) are still alive today. The hibakusha are still being discriminated today when in comes to marriage and work prospects. But sure Chris, let's makes another film centering the dude who spearheaded the fucking project that created the hibakusha 😒🤷🏻‍♀️

#oppenheimer #atomic bomb #hiroshima #nagasaki #films #anti christopher nolan #war crimes #us war crimes

[ricisidro]

#Oppenheimer winner of 7 #Oscars will finally be released in #Japan on March 29.

The bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki was not shown in the film.

About 140,000.people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki when the #US dropped #atomicbombs in these cities, which ended #WW2.

#radiation #nuclear #hibakusha

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/03/12/film/hiroshima-oppenheimer-success-japan-oscars/

#oppenheimer #Oscars #Best Picture #oscars 2024 #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #Japan #WW2 #radiation #nuclear #hibakusha

[quantico187]

I was very hesitant to post this, but I am sure you will understand.

I was very much looking forward to the release of "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" in Japan.

However, I am saddened by the #Barbenheimer meme that glorifies a genocidal weapon that took the lives of approximately 220,000 people (including those on the Korean peninsula). How can such unimaginative play be made?

And as long as Barbie officials are participating in this "play," I will not be able to support this movie, which is a great pity....

We hope that everyone with a heart will listen to our message.

My prayers go out to the hibakusha and to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who have continued to suffer for generations afterwards.

※ I am only criticizing the attitude of the fans who make a mockery of the tragedy of the atomic bombing. Please understand that I am not criticizing the film itself (which has not yet been released in Japan!).

#NoBarbenheimer

[fanfictionwritingblog]

Hisashi Shigaraki Backstory Part 1

Hisashi was born in Japan in 1983. His father is unknown and his mother was Ai Shigaraki, a Hibakusha, a bomb-affected person.

Ai was born a few months after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, her mother being in the early stages of pregnancy at the time. She was born in perfect health; her only abnormality was bright white hair and eyes. The doctors assumed that her white hair and eyes were caused by the radiation of the atomic bomb as many children who were still in their mother's womb had medical problems like being born stillborn.

Discrimination against the Hibakusha was common; people were often afraid that the effects of the radiation could be contagious, and many Hibakusha suffered health problems like different forms of cancer, resulting in fewer job opportunities and marriages, especially with Hibakusha women. When he and his mother venture outside their cramped apartment she wraps her and Hisashi with a kitchen head scarf to avoid the stares and whispers of uninformed citizens, making themselves look more discrete among regular Japanese citizens.

Growing up very poor, Hisashi remembered feeling hungry often, as Ai was often unable to afford food for the two. Working multiple low-paying jobs was how Ai could pay the rent of the Shigaraki small apartment. But many times, Ai often stole and pickpocketed to purchase food and necessities. The most Hisashi remembered from his mother was being carried on her back as she worked and stole, unable to find or trust people to take care of Hisashi.

When Hisashi was two years old, Ai met Sebastian Shaw, catching his attention from her and Hisashi's white hair and white and red eyes. Ai distrusted Shaw initially, but when he offered a deal to pay her in exchange for examining Ai and Hisashi, she agreed. The next few months were the most financially safe the Shigaraki family had ever been. However, Ai began to suspect Shaw had deeper plans for her and Hisashi.

Shaw explained to Ai that she is a mutant. From tests and experiments, they discovered her mutation was immunity to radiation. Her x-gene was most likely activated during the womb when her mother survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Uncovering Shaw's true motivations, his plans on using Ai and her children to be used by the Hellfire Club, Ai demanded to end their agreement but was kidnapped by Shaw, her son Hisashi, and taken to the United States.

Imprisoned in a rural laboratory, Ai was under immense stress. From painful experiments that left her bedridden, her inability to understand the scientist's English left her frightened and confused, and abusive guards gave her no pity when she begged to return to her home country. When she discovered she was pregnant with her second son, Yoichi Shigaraki, it only worsened her mental health to her physical health weakening, knowing he would suffer under the harsh environment.

On the due date of Yoichi's birth, Ai had prolonged labor, lasting for 24 hours. Surrounded by scientists she hated and frightened of. Hisashi remembered hearing his mother's screams and begging for him. Escaping the guards, Hisashi held his mother one last time as she gave birth to his brother, giving Hisashi his brother's name, Yoichi, and demanding he promise to take care of Yoichi.

Tightly gripping Hisashi's tiny hands, the three-year-old suppressed his tears for his mother to let go as she whispered, "Your sibling's name is Yoichi. I won't be here any longer. I need you to promise to care for them. Promise me, Hisashi."

Swallowing down his fears, tears welled up in his eyes as Hisashi nodded, "Okay, I promise."

When the guards tried to pull Hisashi away, he activated his power All For One. All For One can steal any mutation from other mutants. Hisashi first used his power to steal his mother's mutation as she died. In the days after Ai's death, her body was examined by doctors. They discovered cancer cells developing rapidly. Her body's immunity to radiation was taken by Hisashi when he hugged her for the last time; the trauma of witnessing his mother's death activated his mutation. 

For the next few years, Hisashi raised Yoichi, acting as Yoichi's parent and protector against the horrible Hellfire Club scientists. On nights when Yoichi would just cry, Hisashi would rock and rub his back until Yoichi tired himself out to encourage Yoichi to eat every few hours, even when the younger brother was fussy.

Unfortunately, there was no one Hisashi could rely on as he experienced his traumas and abuse. Other mutants lived with them, who also didn't have anyone from children to adults. All For One was the most potent mutation the scientists had seen, constantly forcing Hisashi to explore the different functions of his power by taking the mutations of others and putting different mutations on to others. Multiple times, Hisashi has been forced to steal mutations and ends up killing the mutant, terrifying Hisashi as a young child. Even if his power didn't kill the mutant, later on, he would hear a gunshot ordered by Shaw, as the powerless mutant was no longer of use to him. At night, Hisashi would have dreams of talking to his mother, asking her how to raise Yoichi, nightmares of his fellow imprisoned mutants, having them screaming and begging in a black void, and asking Hisashi to let them go. In training, Hisashi reluctantly used the stolen mutations to appease the scientists and avoid harsh punishments for disobeying.

Yoichi's immune system was often in jeopardy. Frequently bedbound for days, and fell behind the average development of a child. For example, he learned how to speak only when he turned five, and his asthma made his lungs easily infected with viruses. One day, when Hisashi was ten years old, he heard of plans to kill Yoichi because of how weak his younger brother was. 

With Yoichi's life on the line, Hisashi escaped the facility, using the mutations he trained and used for years encouraged by the consciousness of his mother and the original users of the mutations he had taken.

For a month, Hisashi and Yoichi lived on the streets, constantly running away from the authorities as the uniform and weapons they carried reminded Hisashi of the guards he faced off with the Hellfire Club.

The living conditions after escaping the Hellfire Club took a toll on Yoichi's health; sleeping in the cold streets of alleyways, eating scraps of food from dumpsters behind stores and restaurants, and only one inhaler, by the end of one month, they lived in homelessness, Yoichi almost succumbed to pneumonia. Noticing Yoichi's limp form Hisashi searched for help, spotting an expensive car belonging to Charles Xavier driving in his direction. Jumping onto the road, Ororo halted, nearly hitting Hisashi. Hisashi directs Ororo to his dying brother and speeds towards a nearby hospital.

As Yoichi slowly recovered from pneumonia, Hisashi stayed with Charles and Ororo. He explained, to the best of his ability, of his life held captive by the HellFire Club, his mutation All For One, and his fears of returning to life in the HellFire laboratory with Yoichi dead. With the harsh reality of his life up to that point, the death of his mother, raising Yoichi at such a young age, and the abuse from the Hellfire Club, Hisashi barely speaks from his cries for his brother's health and life. Even if Yoichi survives, he doesn’t know how to care for Yoichi's needs and himself on his own.

Listening to Hisashi's past, Charles decided to change his and the Shigaraki brothers' lives. To take Hisashi and Yoichi under his guardianship and mentorship as X-Men, his team of mutant students to train and live together with humanity.

Tell me what you think about Hisashi past, might change Ai a bit.

#bnha #au #hisashi shigaraki #x men evolution #yoichi shigaraki #charles xavier #x men #xmen evolution #my hero academia

[beautiful-basque-country]

When I studied abroad in Hiroshima there was an anti-war exhibition organized by local high school students, mostly about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was a short manga about a Basque girl from Gernika who was one of the many children taken to the USSR. The bombing killed all her family and friends so she could not sleep and would cry all the time, which upset the other children and staff at the “orphanage”. Because at the same time Japan had annexed Korea and the USSR was doing deportations of Korean and Japanese citizens, a Zainichi (ethnic Koreans in Japan) staff member decided to "adopt" the girl and take her with him to Hiroshima so she could feel better. His family took her in the following years and although she always wanted to go back home she couldn't because WWII had broken out and it was too dangerous to travel, and eventually she fell in love with the couple’s son. The man was then forcibly conscripted, despite many attempts to hide from the officers. One day the wife decided to take the girl out of the city when the son was in college, and that was when the atomic bombings happened. The son survived but was severely injured because of the nuclear fallout. Some years later the son and the girl married and travelled to Gernika, where she was originally from. They stay there and raised their child, and the man would die of complications from radiation sickness. The manga then ended with a group of surviving hibakusha (people who were affected by the atomic bombings) and their descendants placing flowers under the Gernika tree years later, one of which was now the couple’s adult son.

I wish I could find it again; I saw it many years ago but the story always stuck with me, about survivors of inexcusable, outright genocidal war crimes against civilians. I even tried looking in places like Twitter or Pixiv where artists self-publish their manga, but to no avail. It is likely it was something made solely for the exhibition.

Sorry for the long ask but I wanted to share this amazing work of solidarity I had the privilege of seeing. ❤️

Aw, anon!!! What a lovely story, I'd LOVE to find that manga one day!!!

Eskerrik asko for taking your time to share!! 🧡🧡🧡

#euskadi #euskal herria #basque country #pais vasco #pays basque #ww2 #gernika #japan #manga #history #anons