Challenging Nuclear Pacifism in Japan: Hiroshima’s Anti-Nuclear Social Movements

Shedding new light on Japan’s pacifism and Hiroshima’s role in it, Yuasa investigates the events of post-war Japan and how it catalysed a range of challenges to public sentiment.

Masae Yuasa is a sociologist teaching in the Faculty of International Studies of Hiroshima City University, Japan. She is interested in the politics of radiation, and her related work in English includes ’The Future of August 6th 1945’ (The Study of Time XIV, 2013, BRILL).