Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Nuclear Age

对核时代广岛和长崎的思考催生了两本书。第一本书《原子弹记忆》探讨了东京如何利用原子弹轰炸广岛和长崎，作为诱导战后日本集体认同的一种手段。这项研究显示，日本政府试图将原子弹的记忆转化为受害者意识，而不是帮助克服过去，这是如何引导日本在战争记忆中的。第二本书《冲绳的生活记忆》探讨了如何在日本大陆和冲绳人不情愿和参与的情况下为东亚构建核保护伞，以及如何反对日本大陆和冲绳人的不情愿和参与。这项关于公共外交的研究还探讨了为什么核保护伞的比喻似乎有一些含糊但富有成效的细节。

Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the nuclear age gave birth to two publications. The first book, Genbaku no kioku (A-bomb memories), explores the way Tokyo has exploited the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a means of inducing postwar Japanese collective identity. The study shows how Japan has been guided in its war memories by the government’s attempts to manipulate A-bomb memories into the country’s victim consciousness rather than to help overcome the past. The second book, Okinawa no kioku (Living memories in Okinawa), examines how the nuclear umbrella was constructed for East Asia over, and against, mainland Japanese and Okinawan reluctance and participation. This study in public diplomacy also explores why the nuclear umbrella metaphor appears to have details that are ambiguous, but productive.