5/29/2023 0 Comments Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburō Ōe![]() One of the main contentions about the Ninth World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs was the use of “any country”. After the end of the war and with the proliferation of nuclear arms, in 1958 anti-nuclear conferences began to appear around the world. The Directors organizing the event have been holding secret meetings and even the press were kept out. The Ninth World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs was to be held but was unbelievably disorganized and Oe himself wondered if the conference was going to be held at all. Oe’s first trip to Hiroshima was in August of 1963. It also includes a new introduction by Oe himself. This current English edition was published in 1995 and was translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa. ![]() It was first published in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten in 1965. The notes were originally serialized in a monthly journal called Sekai which translates to “world” and were taken over a two year period between August of 1963 through May of 1965. ![]() He would interview and hear testimony of atomic bomb survivors and also the victims of radiation sickness, a new disease that was then unknown to the world. Hiroshima Notes is his thoughts and reactions to the ongoing political situation concerning the nuclear arms race. In 1965, Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe accepted an offer to write about Hiroshima and its people twenty years after the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. ![]()
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