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INDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable. Additionally, page numbers in italics indicate photographs and illustrations.
air raid drills and shelters, 17, 38, 72, 85, 100
Akahoshi Masazumi, 290
Akizuki Sugako, 243, 270–71
Akizuki Tatsuichiro, 175
and accounts of bombing, 76–78, 80
and burial of bomb victims, 86
death, 291
and Japanese surrender, 95
and NASM exhibit controversy, 265, 267
and orphans from bombing, 134
and peace activism, 241–42, 242–45, 247, 249, 251, 253, 270–71
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 88–89, 91, 141, 172–76
and radiation illness victims, 98–99, 102–3
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 118
Alamogordo, New Mexico, 29, 113
American Red Cross, 121
Anami Korechika, 35, 65, 92, 94
Araki Shizue, 81
Archdiocese of Nagasaki, 232
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), 186, 239
Asahi Graph, 195–96, 236, 240
Asahi Shimbun, 89
Ashworth, Fred, 38
Association for the Restoration of the Atomic-Bombed Matsuyama-machi Neighborhood, 241
Atlantic Monthly, 151, 152
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)
and autopsies, 185–86, 189, 239–40
and care-vs.-research controversy, 182–85
and censorship restrictions, 195
and Do-oh Mineko, 180–81, 182–83, 193–94
and effects of radiation exposure, 206
and exhibits on bombings, 278
and Lucky Dragon No. 5 (fishing vessel), 211
and NASM exhibit controversy, 266
and ongoing studies, 192–93
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 203
and radiation dosimetry, 223
and research on hibakusha, 180–82, 220, 227
and Wada Koichi, 193
and Yamazaki’s advocacy for hibakusha, 186–92
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, 289, 290
atomic bomb effects, awareness of, 264–65, 277–78, 280
Atomic Bomb Victims Medical Care Law, 221
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 186, 189, 211
atomic explosion, 41–42, 44
Atomic Field, 120, 123
Atomized Nagasaki (Yamahata), 195
autopsies
and ABCC research, 185–86, 189
and effects of radiation exposure, 103–5, 112, 177, 289
and specimens returned to Japan, 236, 239–40
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 148
B-29 bombers, 28, 32, 38, 62, 67, 92, 247
Barnouw, Erik, 238
Beahan, Kermit, 39, 45
Bells of Nagasaki, The (Nagai), 147, 169, 170, 171
Bikini Atoll, 210
blast damage, 41–43, 46–48, 50, 69–71, 87
Bockscar (bomber), 32, 34, 38–39, 44
Bohlmann, Rudi, 116
Book-of-the-Month Club, 150
Britain, 2, 66, 215
Buddhism
and Akizuki, 175–76
and cremation of bomb victims, 86
and modern Nagasaki, 273
and orphans from bombing, 134
and peace activism, 258
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 172–73
and remembrance of hibakusha, 292–93
and services for victims, 158
temples on day of bombing, 52
tomuraiage rite, 261
Bundy, McGeorge, 153
Burchett, Wilfred, 111–12
Burnt Yet Undaunted (Yamaguchi), 278
Bushido code, 94
Byrnes, James, 91, 152
cancers of bomb survivors
and ABCC research, 192–93
and censorship, 151
and effects of radiation exposure, 177–78, 290
and leukemia, 173, 177, 219, 221, 245, 260
and long-term health of hibakusha, 219, 281, 291, 292
and peace activism, 245, 255, 260, 261
cataracts, 176–77
Catholicism in Nagasaki
and Akizuki, 175–76
and casualties of bombing, 94–95
Catholic casualties of bombing, 47
churches destroyed by bomb, 61
Feast of the Assumption, 36
and First Urakami Hospital, 76
and memorial services, 128
and modern Nagasaki, 274, 275–76
and Nagasaki’s background, 1, 3–4
Nishinaka-machi Catholic Church, 4
and orphans from bombing, 134
papal visit to Nagasaki,
250–51
and peace activism, 244, 250–51
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 88–89, 159, 169–70, 170–72, 174–75, 199, 231–32
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 147
censorship
and nuclear weapons development, 148–53
and personal commemorations, 162
and reclamation of wartime footage, 237–38
and research on bomb effects, 188, 195–97
and school textbooks, 244
and survivors’ stories, 158
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 109–13, 169, 198
Ceremony to Pray for Peace, 198
Chernobyl nuclear accident, 290–91
Chicago Tribune, 110
Children of the Atomic Bomb (Yamazaki), 278
child victims of bombings, 47–48, 51, 52, 55–56, 68, 69–70, 85, 95, 114, 128, 132, 177, 188–90, 290. See also in-utero radiation exposure
China
and international arms reduction efforts, 284
international treaties regulating nuclear weapons, 249
and Japanese militarism, 5–6, 27
and Japanese surrender negotiations, 66
Japan’s invasion of, 10
and Pacific War, 287
Chinzei Middle School, 48, 72
Christianity in Japan, 2, 86, 169–70, 172
citizenship issues in Japan, 225
Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), 145–48
civil defense
and ABCC research, 185
and nuclear weapons development, 112, 149, 181, 246, 265
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 75, 87
and wartime Nagasaki, 16–19, 18
Cold War, 197, 249, 264–65, 267
comfort women, 267
Compton, Karl T., 151
Concentric Circles of Death (Akizuki), 245
Confederate Air Force, 246–47
Constitution of Japan, 145
conventional bombing, 19, 27, 67, 92, 131
Convent of the Holy Cross, 88–89
Cousins, Norman, 150, 156, 184
cremation of bomb victims
and peace activism, 261–62, 280
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 95, 97, 98, 126, 129, 162
and rescue efforts after bombing, 81, 83–84, 86
Crouch, Tom, 266
Customs House, 118
Daghlian, Harry, 109
Daigo Fukuryu Maru (fishing vessel), 210–12
Daiichi Nisshin Maru, 141
Daily Express (London), 111
Day After, The (1983), 264–65
Dejima island, 9, 118, 274
Delnore, Victor, 158, 159, 169
demilitarization and disarmament, 133, 194–95, 247–48, 283
democratic reforms, 91–92, 145
Dendenkousha (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation), 226–27
discrimination against hibakusha, xvii, 179–80, 181–82, 224, 288
“Disease X,” 111
Do-oh Mineko, 24, 230
and ABCC research, 182–83, 193
and accounts of bombing, 39, 42–43, 48, 50, 50–52, 60–61, 63, 208
and beginning of U.S. occupation of Japan, 96–97
and care of bomb victims, 121–22
and cosmetics career, 202, 228–31
death of, 291–94
family background of, 21–23
injuries from bombing, 85, 89
interviews with, xiv
and Japanese surrender, 95
later years of, 281–83, 282
and long-term health problems, 281–83
and peace activism, 237, 252, 256–61, 263, 271, 272, 277, 282, 289
physical recovery of, 180–81, 201–2
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 136, 139, 228–31
presumed dead, 128
and public awareness efforts, xvii
suicidal thoughts, 160–61
and wartime Nagasaki, 25, 27–28
dosimetry systems, 222–23, 289
Dower, John W., 12, 144, 264
Dutch East India Company, 274
economy of Nagasaki
and modern Nagasaki, 246
and Nagasaki’s background, 1–2
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 137–40, 194, 198, 203, 245–46
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 144
education, 128, 141, 145
Einstein, Albert, 150
Eisenhower, Dwight, 266
embargoes of Japan, 11–12
employment of bomb victims, 179–80, 182, 227
Enola Gay (bomber), 247, 263–64, 268
ethical debates on nuclear weapons, 149, 264, 283
evacuations, 25, 31, 55
explosive force of atomic weapons, xiii
Farrell, Thomas, 111–12, 113
fashion industry, 202–3, 228
Fat Man, 31–32, 286–87
films
and accounts of bombing, 34
and censorship, 110, 112, 146
and exhibits on bombings, 278
and lifting of censorship restrictions, 195
and peace activism, 236, 237–39, 241, 246, 247–48, 270, 286
and peace education programs, 295
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 171
and U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 131–33
See also photography
firebombing. See incendiary attacks
fires after atomic bombing, 55–56, 56–58, 63–64, 67
First Urakami Hospital, 76, 77, 134, 174–75
First World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 212
fission process, 41
509th Composite Group, 32
food shortages and rationing
and ABCC research, 191
and accounts of bombing, 36, 61, 75
and family gardens, 34
and malnutrition, 26, 126, 138, 190
and orphans from bombing, 135
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 100, 126, 128, 137–40, 140–41, 164
and radiation illness victims, 97
and rescue efforts after bombing, 82, 85–86
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 146
and wartime Nagasaki, 19, 20–23, 26
forced labor, 133, 275
Foreign Ministry (Japan), 66
“Forgotten Ground Zero, The” (Krakauer), 269
Forrestal, James, 66–67
France, 2, 249, 284
Frankfurter, Felix, 151
Fuchi Elementary School, 127
Fukahori Yoshitoshi, 242, 288
Fukushima nuclear accident, 291
funeral pyres, 83–84
gaman, 273
gender roles in Japanese culture, 21, 145, 204
genetic damage from radiation exposure, 190–91, 206, 289–90
Glover, Thomas, 274
Glover Garden, 274
Glynn, Paul, 171–72
Groves, Leslie, 108–9, 113, 120
Halsey, William F., 150
Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, 277
Harper’s Magazine, 152, 153
Harwit, Martin, 265, 268
Hattori Michie, 119
Hayashida Mitsuhiro, 294–95
Hayashi Shigeo, 120
Hayashi Tsue, 162
health care laws, 219–25, 225–27, 248, 299–301
health conditions, chronic, 176–79
Herndon, Dell, 268
Hersey, John, xiii, 150, 197
Heyman, I. Michael, 268, 269
hibakusha (atomic bomb–affected people)<
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and ABCC research, 186–92, 192–93
and censorship, 149–50
and commemorations of bombing, 200–201, 203–6, 292–95
current population of, xiii–xv
discrimination against, 179, 228, 229
and effects of radiation exposure, 289–91
health care laws, 299–301
and housing lotteries, 168
and international arms reduction efforts, 283–84
interviews with, xvi
introduction of term, 130
long-term health issues, 153, 157–58, 218–25, 235
and modern Nagasaki, 276–77
and NASM exhibit controversy, 263–69
and orphans from bombing, 134
and peace activism, 209, 211–15, 216, 225–27, 236–45, 245–48, 251–53, 252, 258–60, 271–72, 287–88, 295–96
and postwar recovery/reconstruction, 138–41, 143, 159, 161, 164, 170–71, 173, 176–77, 207–8, 231–33
poverty of, 85–86, 100, 126, 133–36, 138–39, 140–41, 164, 179, 245
and public awareness efforts, xvii
and remembrance organizations, 198
and research on bomb effects, 180–82, 182–85
and Treaty of Peace, 194–97
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 146–48
and U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 132
and Yamazaki’s advocacy, 186–92
See also specific individuals
Hibakusha Relief Law, 299–300
Higashi Jun, 68, 71, 196
Hill of Grace Nagasaki A-Bomb Home, 251
Hirohito Michinomiya
and military aggression, 4–5
and NASM exhibit controversy, 268
and surrender negotiations, 29, 35, 66, 91–94
and Treaty of Peace, 194
and U.S. occupation of Japan, 144
Hirose Masahito, 213, 214
Hiroshima (Hersey), xiii, 150, 197
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings (report), 247
Hiroshima bombing, 30–31, 53, 66
Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970), 238
Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law, 169
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall, 212
Hobo, 244
Honshu island, 27, 228
Horne, Herbert, 121
hospital ships, 116
Hotarujaya Terminal, 7–8, 39, 43, 55–56, 63, 143
housing shortages and reconstruction, 164, 168–69, 173
human rights, 145
hydrogen bombs, 209–10
hypocenter of bomb blast
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