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NOTES I N T R O D U C T I O N (pp. 3-12) 1. Japanese scholars in Tokyo have begun to take cognizance of the situation, and studies of social change in Hiroshima are being initiated by a research team from Keio University. See Keizo Yoneyama, "Hibakuchi Hiroshima ni Miru Shakai Hendo" (Social Change Observable in [Atomic-] Bombed Hiroshima), Hogaku Kenkyu (1964) 37:57-97; and Yoneyama and Kawai, "Genebaku to Shakai Hendo'' (The A-Bomb and Social Change), ibid. (1965) 38, Nos. 9 and 10. Earlier sociological and psychological research efforts include: S. Nakano, "Genbaku Eikyo no Shakaigakuteki Chosa" (Sociological Study of Atomic Bomb Effects), Daigakujinkai Kenkyuronshu I (April, 1954), and "Genbaku to Hiroshima" (The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima), in Shinshu Hiroshima-Shi-Shi (Newly Revised History of Hiroshima City) (Hiroshima Shiyakusho, 1951); Y. Kubo, "Data About the Suffering and Opinion of the A-bomb Sufferers," Psychologia (1961) 4:56-59 (in English); and "A Study of A-bomb Sufferers' Behavior in Hiroshima: A Sociopsychological Research on A-bomb and A-energy," Japanese Journal of Psychology (1952) 22:103-110 (English abstract); T. Misao, "Characteristics in Abnormalities Observed in Atom-bombed Survivors," Journal of Radiation Research (1961) 2:85-97 (in English), in which various psychosomatic patterns are described; Irving L. Janis, Air War and Emotional Stress (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), particularly chapters 1-3; and United States Strategic Bombing Survey Reports, The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947). Additional studies of social aspects of the atomic bomb problem are being conducted under the direction of Kiyoshi Shimizu at the Hiroshima University Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology; and some of the group's findings are presented in Dr. Shimizu's article "Little-Known Effects of the Bomb," Japan Quarterly (1967) 14:93-98 (in English). I have published two essays dealing with aspects of my study: "Psychological Effects of the N O T E S Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima/' Daedalus (1963) 92:462-497; and "On Death and Death Symbolism: The Hiroshima Disaster." Psychiatry (1964)27:191-208. 2. See "Genbaku Iryoho no Kaisei Jisshi ni tsuite" (Concerning the Enforcement of the Atomic Bomb Medical Treatment Law of August 1, 1960) (published by the Hiroshima City Office). 3. "Reason, Rearmament and Peace: Japan's Struggles with a Universal Dilemma," Asian Survey (January, 1962); and in abridged translation, "Risei, Saigunbi, Heiwa: Sekaiteki Jirenma to Torikumu Nippon," Asahi Janaru (July 8, 1962), 14-15. 4. See, for instance: M. Hachiya (Warner Wells, ed. and trans.), Hiroshima Diary (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955); T. Nagai, We of Nagasaki (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951); H. Agawa, Devil's Heritage (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1957); A. Osada (compiler), Children of the A-bomb (New York: Putnam's, 1963); Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961); John Hersey, Hiroshima (New York: Bantam Books, 1959); Robert Trumbull, Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Tokyo and Rutland, Vt: Charles E. Turtle, 1957); John A. Siemes, S.J., "Hiroshima —August 6, 1945," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1946) 1:2-6, and "Hiroshima: Eyewitness," Saturday Review of Literature (May 11, 1946), 24-25, 40-45; S. Imahori, Gensuibaku Jidai (The Age of the A- and H-Bomb) (2 vols; Tokyo: Sanichi Shobo, 1959-1960); Y. Matsuzaka (ed.), Hiroshima Genbaku Iryoshi (Medical History of the Hiroshima A-Bomb) (Hiroshima, 1961); Y. Ota, Shikabane no Machi (Town of Corpses) (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1955); Janis; USSBS Reports; and the large number of back issues of the Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima's leading newspaper, which include accounts of personal A-bomb experiences . 5. See my essay "Youth and History: Individual Change in Postwar Japan," Daedalus (1962) 91:172-197. C H A P T E R II (pp. 15-56) 1. Martha Wolfenstein (Disaster: A Psychological Essay [Glencoe, 111.: The Free Press, 1957], p. 26) speaks of anticipation as "a small-scale preliminary exposure on the level of imagination" which "can have an inoculating effect." Such was the situation, for instance, during the London Blitz, where, according to Melitta Schmideberg ("Some Observations on Individual Reactions to Air Raids," International Journal of Psychoanalysis [1942] 23:146-175), people became used to bombings and adapted to them by gradual changes in their way of life. 2. Ota, p. 39. See also Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed, The Decision to Drop the Bomb (New York: Coward-McCann, 1965), pp. 40-41, 239...

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