Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Backstory
Part 1. Hiroshima
1. The Tattered Kimono
2. Watanabe-san and the Mound
3. Scars and the Impersonal Nature of War
Part 2. Nagasaki
4. Apocalypse
5. Sacred Images, Two Mothers
6. Missionaries, Banishment, and Resurrection
7. Searching for the Kimono-Draped Nursing Mother and Child
8. Searching for the Rice Ball Boy and His Mother
9. Hibaku no Maria
Part 3. Firebombed Cities
10. Tokyo
11. Tokushima
12. Fukuoka
Part 4. Holocausts
13. Anne Frank in Japan
14. The Holocaust of Hiroshima
15. A Japanese Letter from Auschwitz
Part 5. Prisoners Of Memory
16. The Gulag POW
17. Cloth Man
Part 6. War Crimes, Repentance, And Apologies
18. Atrocities and Dead Souls
19. Repentance and Apology: The War Criminal’s Son
20. Repentance and Apology: The Wartime Emperor’s Son
Part 7. Flashbacks
21. Tsunami: Flattened Landscapes
22. Meltdown: Radiation Refugees
Notes
Further Reading
Index