Nagasaki physician Takashi Nagai’s religiously oriented writings about the deaths of atomic bombing victims, which included his wife, sometimes raised difficulties for others. It’s no wonder, in part because his outlook could easily be seen as glossing over the sufferings…
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Takashi Nagai, 2: criticisms
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Takashi Nagai’s deeply religious reflections on the atomic bombings are said to have played a role in a rather passive attitude toward the peace movement in Japan. A paper by a DePaul University’s Yuki Miyamoto, an assistant professor of religious…
Lessons from Takashi Nagai, an early leader of survivors
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More than six decades after his death, Dr. Takashi Nagai remains relevant to how we look at the pursuit of peace today. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Nagai became one of the most famous survivors of the…
Nagasaki: The historical debate
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As we mark the 65th anniversary of Nagasaki’s hellish destruction, it has always seemed to me that, of the two atomic bombings, this was the one more clearly unnecessary. After all, as Martin J. Sherwin argued in his classic work,…
Obama and Hiroshima
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and, to a certain extent, other parts of Japan are caught up in attempts to persuade President Barack Obama to visit one of the two A-bombed cities, as early as next month. On Thursday, the Hiroshima Peace Media…
A final stop: Yasukuni
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This summer has provided wonderful chances to learn more about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and peace issues. There are literally too many people to thank to begin here. It’s been a pleasure to share here a little of what I have experienced…