Tattered kimonos in Japan - Rand, Robert (The University of Alabama Press, 2024)
The tattered kimono – Watanabe-san and the mound – Scars and the impersonal nature of war – Apocalypse – Sacred images, two mothers – Missionaries, banishment, and resurrection – Searching for the kimono-draped nursing mother and child – Searching for the rice ball boy and his mother – Hibaku no Maria – Tokyo – Tokushima – Fukuoka – Anne Frank in Japan – The holocaust of Hiroshima – A Japanese letter from Auschwitz – The gulag POW – Cloth man – Atrocities and dead souls – Repentence and apology : the war criminal's son – Repentence and apology : the wartime emperor's son – Tsunami : flattened landscapes – Meltdown : radiation refugees
Keywords: World War; 1939-1945 / Japan / Hiroshima-shi / Personal narratives; World War; 1939-1945 / Japan / Nagasaki-shi / Personal narratives; World War; 1939-1945 / Participation; Japanese / Public opinion; Japan / History / 1945- / Anecdotes; Guerre mondiale; 1939-1945 / Japon / Hiroshima / Récits personnels; Guerre mondiale; 1939-1945 / Japon / Nagasaki / Récits personnels; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Japan; Japan / Hiroshima-shi; Japan / Nagasaki-shi; Since 1939; Anecdotes; History; Personal narratives; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Pazifikkrieg