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Complicity and Victimhood: Director Kamanaka Hitomi's Nuclear Warnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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“They keep saying on television that it's safe, there's nothing to worry about. I regard this as criminal.” So Kamanaka Hitomi stated on a recent talk show. [“The harm caused by trace amounts of radiation will show up ten years later … Director Kamanaka Hitomi appeals to her fellow citizens to awaken to the threats posed by radiation: ‘Tokyo is now a contaminated area, too. ‘Cinema Today, April 17, 2011, link.]

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