 Description:
This lecture focuses on Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and their struggles. We will begin with determining why Koreans came to
those two cities by examining Japan's colonization of Korea and its specific
policies. Then, we will investigate the situation of Korean A-bomb victims
in Japan by highlighting their medical conditions and societal perceptions.
At the same time, we will examine Japanese government's policies toward
Korean A-bomb victims, which differentiated Japan's Korean residents from
South Koreans. Moreover, we will discuss how local governments have treated
Korean A-bomb victims. Further, we will examine how post-war Japanese-Korean
relations and the division of Korea affected the condition of Korean A-bomb
victims as a whole. In the end, we will briefly discuss the current situation
of Korean residents in Japan.
 Objective:
The lecture aims students to understand the situation of Korean A-bomb
victims in Japan whose voices have long been suppressed. Moreover, this
class will provide students an opportunity to think how Hiroshima's messages
can truly convey the people who suffered under the brutal Japanese occupation
in Asia.
 Recommended Readings:
Toyonaga Keisaburo. “Colonial and Atomic Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea, “ trans. Eric Cazdyn and Lisa Yoneyama, Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), pp.378-409.
Hoom Kwi Kuak. "Father and Son Robbe Body and Soul, " pp. 200-204. & Kim In Jo. "Koreans…and Americans and Chinese Are Also Victims" pp.205- 214. The Atomic Bomb Voices: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Edited by Kyoko Selden and Mark Selden, eds
Yoneyama, Risa. "Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean Atomic Bomb
Memorial," Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory, pp. 151-186.
Name:Chisato HOTTA
Present Post and Title: Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University
Final Education: The University of Chicago, Ph.D.
Specialized Field Modern Japanese history/ Modern Korean history / African American history/ Comparative Studies of Colonialism and Minority Issues/ Afro-Asian Relations
Recent Publications:
*Beyond National and Racial Boundaries: Comparative Studies of the Korean
Experience in Osaka and the African American Experience in Chicago, 1920-1945 (book in preparation)
*The Construction of the Korean Community in Osaka between 1920 and 1945:
A Cross-cultural Perspective.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Proquest Information & Learning, 2005.
*Kokka to jinshu no kyokai wo koeta hikakukenkyu to sono igi-1920nen kara
1945nen made no Osaka Chosenjin komyunitii to Shikago no kokujin komyunitii
no keiken wo chushin to shite- Zainichi Chosenjin-shi Kenkyu, no.42 (October 2012)
*Japan's Modernization and the Persecution of Buddhism,HUE Journal of Humanities, Social, and Natural Sciences. 35(June 2012)
*Reading Banana Bottom: Claude McKay and the Quest for Black Identity, The Doshisha American Studies. 44, (Spring 2008)
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