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The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb – Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Richard Minear  and
Ōe Kenzaburō
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Introduction: The current disaster in Japan, the worst since World War II, may bring major change in Japanese thinking about nuclear weapons and nuclear power. But the preconditions for that re-thinking existed long before the disaster.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 15 , April 2011 , e1
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Notes

1 Ōe's own father died in 1944, when Ōe was nine years old.

2 This passage occurs near the end of Kimyō na shigoto (Strange job), Ōe's first published story. The job, in which the narrator works with two other students, one male and one female, involves slaughtering dogs; in the end, the job is a con, and they are all laid off after killing only some of the dogs. Ōe Kenzaburō zensakuhin 1:17 (Shinchōsha, 1966). This translation is by Ruth Adler (Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 12.3:73 [July-September 1980].

3 Hatoyama cited “deterrence” to justify abandoning his previous insistence that no new U.S. base be built in Okinawa in favor of supporting construction at Henoko.