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JPNS 290 - Sadako and WWII: Finding Resources

Books at KCC

Children of the Paper Crane: The Story of Sadako Sasaki and Her Struggle with the A-Bomb Disease by Masamoto Nasu; Kyoko Yoshida; Elizabeth W. Baldwin; Steven L. Leeper
Call Number: RJ416.L4 S27613 1991 (General Collection)
Challenges of Humanistic Psychology by James Bugental
Call Number: BF149 .B78 (General Collection)
See the chapter: "On Death and Death Symbolism: The Hiroshima Disaster"
Mother and Son; the Wartime Correspondence of Isoko and Ichiro Hatano
Call Number: CT1838.H33 A443 (General Collection)
The Second World War: A Military History; From Munich to Hiroshima
Call Number: D743 C53 (General Collection)
The New Yorker Book of War Pieces
Call Number: D743.9 N4 1989 (General Collection)
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
Call Number: D744.4 .B87 1994 (General Collection)
The Fall of Japan by Keith Wheeler
Call Number: D767.2 W48 1983 (Oversize Collection)
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Kyoko Selden; Mark Selden; Robert Jay Lifton
Call Number: D767.25.H6 A87 1989 (General & Japan Collection)
The Day Man Lost: Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
Call Number: D767.25.H6 D39 1981 (Japan Collection)
Widows of Hiroshima by Mikio Kanda (Editor); Taeko Midorikawa (Translator)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 G46813 1989 (General Collection)
Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya; Warner Wells (Editor)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H313 1995 (General Collection)
Hiroshima by John Hersey; John Hersey
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H4 1985 (Read Collection)
Hiroshima-Nagasaki: A Pictorial Record of the Atomic Destruction
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H5 1978 (Oversize Collection)
Hibakusha by George Marshall (Preface by); Gaynor Sekimori; Naomi Shohno (Introduction by)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H583 1986 (General Collection)
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses by Richard H. Minear (Editor)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H672 1990 (Japan Collection)
A Place Called Hiroshima by Betty J. Lifton; Eikoh Hosoe (Illustrator)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 L39 1985 (General Collection)
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
Call Number: D767.25.H6 L4 1967 (General Collection)
The Victim As Hero by James J. Orr
Call Number: D767.25.H6 O77 2001 (General Collections)
Day One: Before Hiroshima and After by Peter Wyden
Call Number: D767.25.H6 W93 1985 (General Collection)
The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai
Call Number: D767.25.N3 N28413 1984 (Japan Collection)
Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima by James G. Dilena
Call Number: D767.92 .P437 1989 (Hawaiian Collection)
Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Personal Experiences of Nine Men Who Lived Through the Atomic Bombings
Call Number: D811.5 T78 (General Collection)
Postscript From Hiroshima
Call Number: DS897.H5 S8 1966 (General Collection)
Japanese War Brides in America by Miki Ward Crawford; Katie Kaori Hayashi; Shizuko Suenaga
Call Number: E184.J3 W29 2010 (General Collection)
Cultures of War by John W. Dower
Call Number: E745 .D69 2010 (Hawaiian Collection)
Hiroshima by Nakazawa Keiji
Call Number: NC1709.N26 A2 2010 (Japan Collection)
The Hiroshima Murals by John W. Dower; John Junkerman
Call Number: ND1059.M3 H57 1985 (Japan Collection)
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse; Shaw (Editor); John Bester (Translator)
Call Number: PL830.B8 K813 1979 (Japan Collection)
The Bomb by Makoto Oda; D. H. Whittaker (Translator)
Call Number: PL858.D3 H5713 1990 (Japan Collection)
Outcry from the Inferno, Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology by Jiro Nakano (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: PS571.H3 B35 no.67/68 (Hawaiian Collection)
Atomic Awakening by James Mahaffey
Call Number: TK9145 .M3155 2010 (General Collection)
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing by Craig Collie
Call Number: D767.25.N3 C66 2011 (General Collection)

eBooks at KCC

Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima by Yuki Miyamoto
Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory from Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 by Gene Ray
See Chapter 6: Blasted Moments: Remarking a Hiroshima Image
The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War by Campbell Craig; Yuri Smirnov; Sergey Radchenko
The Last Mission by Jim Smith; Malcolm McConnell
Museum Politics by Timothy W. Luke
See chapter 3: Nuclear Reactions: The (Re)Presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum
Isami's House - Three Centuries of a Japanese Family by Gail Lee Bernstein
See chapter 11: Surviving Hiroshima
Hiroshima in History by Robert James Maddox (Editor)
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb by Andrew J. Rotter; Andrew Jon Rotter
Humanity by Jonathan Glover
A Dimly Burning Wick by Sadako Okuda; Pamela B. Vergun

Books at other UH Libraries

Sadako no Inori (サダコの祈り) by Fauzia Aziz Minallah
Call Number: PZ49.31 .M4155 2008 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Publication Date: 2008

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Hiroshima Witness for Peace: Testimony of A-Bomb Survivor Suzuko Numata by Chikahiro Hiroiwa
Call Number: D 767.25 .H6 H49 1998 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Shodo no Kioku: Okinawa, Hiroshima, Nagaseki ni Utsuru Sengo (焦土の記憶 : 沖縄・広島・長崎に映る戦後) by Yoshiaki Fukuma
Call Number: 2011 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Hiroshima Pisu Borantia 10-Nenshi : 2009 (ヒロシマピースボランティア10年誌 : 2009)
Call Number: AC945.O7 H58 2009 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Hiroshima no Rinri (広島の倫理) by Shinji Takahashi
Call Number: BJ1275 .T35 1976 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Sylvia Engdahl (Editor)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 A88 2011 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Hiroshima by Erin Barnett; Philimena Mariani (Editor)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 B37 2011 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Folio)
No more Hiroshima, Nagasaki (原爆写真ノーモアヒロシマ・ナガサキ) by Kazuo Kuroko, Hiroyoshi Shimizu
Call Number: D767.25.H6 G46 2005 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Rain of Ruin by Donald M. Goldstein
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 G65 1995 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Five Days in August by Michael D. Gordin
Call Number: D767.25.H6 G67 2007 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Hiroshima Hiroshima 60-nen (ヒロシマ広島60年)
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H6333 2005 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Hamilton East)
Hiroshima in History and Memory by Michael Hogan
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 H6456 1996 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb by Michael Kort
Call Number: D767.25.H6 K68 2007 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima by Rachelle Linner
Call Number: D767.25.H6 L46 1995 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Beclouded Visions by Kyo Maclear
Call Number: D767.25.H6 M22 1999 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Atomic Tragedy by Sean L. Malloy
Call Number: D767.25.H6 M26 2008 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
"Hibaku Nisei" o Ikiru (「被爆二世」を生きる) by Hisaki Nakamura
Call Number: D767.25.H6 N298 2010 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Genbaku no Kioku: Hiroshima/Nagasaki no Shiso (原爆の記憶 : ヒロシマ/ナガサキの思想) by Christian Tschumi; Markuz Wernli Saito
Call Number: D767.25.H6 O458 2010 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Kikuko Otake
Call Number: D767.25.H6 O8313 2007 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Publication Date: 2007
The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles R. Pellegrino
Call Number: D767.25.H6 P45 2010 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Genbaku no ki (A Memoir of the Atomic Bombing) by Goichi Sashida
Call Number: D767.25.H6 S2613 2008 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
One Sunny Day by Hideko T. Snider; Studs Terkel (Foreword by)
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 S56 1996 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Prompt and Utter Destruction by J. Samuel Walker
Call Number: D767.25.H6 W35 2004 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
Call Number: D767.25.H6 W35 2005 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb by Lequita Vance-Watkins; Aratani Mariko
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 W45 1995 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia )
Genbaku to Ken'etsu : Amerikajin Kishatachi ga Mita Hiroshima, Nagasaki (原爆と検閱 : アメリカ人記者たちが見た広島・長崎) by Atsuko Shigesawa
Call Number: D799.J3 S45 2010 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Nihon Genbaku Shishu (日本原爆詩集) by Miyako Ohara
Call Number: PL763.8 .O35 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
The Songs of Hiroshima: An Anthology by Miyao Ohara (editor)
Call Number: PL763.8 O3515 1964 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
The Songs of Hiroshima: When Hiroshima is Spoken of by Sadako Kurihara
Call Number: PL855.U66 A22 1970z (UH Manoa: Hamilton Special Asia Closed Shelves)
No More Hiroshimas and Nagasakis: Give Me Back Myself, Give Me Back Men Linked to Me by Sankichi Toge
Call Number: PL862.O34 A24 1970z (UH Manoa: Hamilton Special Asia Closed Shelves)
"Hadashi no Gen" ga Ita Fukei : Manga, Senso, Kioku (「はだしのゲン」がいた風景 : マンガ・戦争・記憶) by Kazuma Yoshimura
Call Number: PN6790.J33 N3 2006 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa; Project (Translator)
Call Number: PN6790.J33 N3313 (Leeward CC: General Collection)
Hiroshima Poems by Al Purdy
Call Number: PR6066.U7 H4 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Peace March, Nagasaki to Hiroshima by Millen Brand
Call Number: PS3503.R2576 Z474 (UH Manoa: Hamilton )
Poetics of Hiroshima & Other Poems by William Heyen
Call Number: PS3558.E85 P64 2008 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
The Road from Hiroshima by Marc Kaminsky
Call Number: PS3561.A418 R6 1984 (UH Manoa: Hamilton )
Today Is Not a Good Day for War by David Krieger
Call Number: PS3611.R543 T63 2005 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Poetry
The Day of the Bomb by Karl Bruckner
Call Number: PZ7.B8283 Day2 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Juvenile)
Effects of Atomic Radiation by William J. Schull
Call Number: RA648.3 .S38 1995 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Effects of A-Bomb Radiation on the Human Body by Itsuzo Shigematsu, Brian Harrison, Chikako Ito, Nanao Kamada, Mitoshi Akiyama, Hideo Sasaki
Call Number: RA1231 .R2 G45 1995 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Thyroid Diseases Among Atomic Bomb Survivors in Nagasaki by S. Nagataki
Call Number: RC93 .A1 T42 no.92-12 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Cancer Incidence in Atomic Bomb Survivors
Call Number: RC93 .A1 T42 no.92-5 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Memory of stones Hiroshima-Nagasaki (石の記憶－ヒロシマ・ナガサキ : 被爆試料に注がれた科学者の目)
Call Number: TA418.6 .I84 2004 (UH Manoa: Hamilton East)
Japan 1945: A US Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero by Joe O'Donnell; Mark Seldon
Call Number: TR820.6 .O36 2005 (UH Manoa: Hamilton)
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
Call Number: D767.25.H6 L4 1991 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
The Deaths of Hibakusha
Call Number: D767.25.H6 H4813 1991 (UH Manoa: Hamilton Asia)
Cancer Mortality Among A-Bomb Survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1950-82 by Dale Preston
Call Number: RC93.A1 T42 no.86-1 (UH Manoa: Hamilton

Video

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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The story of a girl with leukemia, who races against time to fold 1000 paper cranes to verify the legend, that by doing so the gods might grant her wish to become well again.
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Puhipau
Call Number: VHS 251 (UH West Oahu)
Dramatizes and demonstrates what would happen if a 20-megaton nuclear bomb were exploded over Pearl Harbor. Title literally means "blown away" or "completely burnt." Includes clips of the human effects of bombs detonated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima Bombing Documentaries: Three TV Documentaries on the Atomic Bombing of the Japanese City of Hiroshima
Call Number: DVD 8525 (UH Manoa)
Nijū hibaku Twice bombed, twice survived : the doubly atomic bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Call Number: DVD 8538 (UH Manoa)
White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Call Number: DVD 5933 (UH Manoa: Sinclair AV Center). You can also find the film streaming online via Films on Demand.
Pearl Harbor & Beyond: Winning the War With Japan
Call Number: DVD 5380 (UH Manoa)
Black Rain
Call Number: DVD 7512 (UH Manoa)
After the Cloud Lifted: Hiroshima's Stories of Recovery
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Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan
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Our Hiroshima
Call Number: VIDEOTAPE 13355 (UH Manoa)
Hiroshima, the Legacy
Watch online. Looks at the collections of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum which contains relics and photographs of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day it was bombed, as well as a large model of the city with an atomic cloud suspended over it. Includes iterviews, archival footage, and recordings describing the condition of that day's victims
Hiroshima: A Mother's Prayer
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki Speak
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Survivors Forty Years After Hiroshima
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Interesting Links

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Peace Declaration (City of Hiroshima)
Hiroshima
Encyclopedia Britannica entry
Seattle Peace Park
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Original documents from the Truman Library
Sadako Sasaki's Cranes and Hiroshima's 65th Anniversary
Chicago Tribune article by President Harry S. Truman's oldest grandson

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Books from the Public Libraries

One Thousand Paper Cranes by Takayuki Ishii
Call Number: 362.19699 Is

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Sadako by Eleanor Coerr; Ed Young (Illustrator)
Call Number: B Sasaki
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr; Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
Call Number: B Sasaki
Peace Crane by Sheila Hamanaka
Call Number: H