***AVAILABLE ABOUT 20 SEPTEMBER 1995***

Remembering the Bomb: The Fiftieth Anniversary in the United States and Japan

Special issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars.

This special issue uses the controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit at the
Smithsonian Institution and a similar one over a proposed war museum in Tokyo to
explore problems of commemoration and memory of the end of the Asia-Pacific war,
and particularly the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moreover, the
articles explore the ways in which Americans invoke contemporary and wartime
actions by Japanese to influence their own domestic debate, and Japanese use
America in the same way. Contributors include historians of both the United
States and Japan. The issue also reproduces several relevant documents, and all
the articles are lavishly illustrated.

Contact BCAS, 3239 9th St., Boulder, CO 80304-2112, U.S.A. E-mail
. Phone: (303)449-7439 or (303) 449-9529. This special
issue is vol. 27, no. 2 (officially dated April-June 1995) of the Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars. It costs $5.50, and the usual discounts are available
for classroom use.

* Contents *

Laura Hein, "The Bomb as Public History and Transnational Memory" (13 pp.)

Edward T. Linenthal, "Between History and Memory: The Enola Gay Controversy at
the National Air and Space Museum" (3 pp.)

Michael S. Sherry, "Patriotic Orthodoxy and U.S. Decline" (7 pp.)

Lane Fenrich, "The Enola Gay and the Politics of Representation," (5 pp.)

Kurihara Sadako, "America, Land of Mercy" (poem)

Sodei Rinjiro, "Hiroshima/Nagasaki as History and Politics" (5 pp.)

Yui Daizaburo, "Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki: A Psychological
Vicious Circle" (14 pp.)

Ellen H. Hammond, "Politics of the War and Public History: Japan's Own Museum
Controversy" (4 pp.)

Three documents (5 pp.) and Martha Winnacker's related article "War Crimes and
Heroism in Vietnamese Commemorations of the U.S. War: Observations in 1977 and
1992" (7 pp.)