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Forty-five years have passed since August 6, 1945, yet this volume contains the first complete English translation of Hara's Summer Flowers, the first English translation of Ota's City of Corpses, and a new translation of Toge's Poems of the Atomic Bomb. No reader will emerge unchanged from reading these works. Different from each other in their politics, their writing, and their styles of life and death, Hara, Ota, and Toge were alike in feeling compelled to set down in writing what they experienced. Within forty-eight hours of August 6, before fleeing the city for shelter in the hills west of Hiroshima, Hara jotted down this note: \"Miraculously unhurt; must be Heaven's will that I survive and report what happened.\" Ota recorded her own remarks to her half-sister as they walked down a street littered with corpses: \"I'm looking with two sets of eyesthe eyes of a human being and the eyes of a writer.\" And the memorable words of Toge quoted above come from a poem addressed to a child whose father was killed in the South Pacific and whose mother died on August 6th--who would tell of that day? 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His trenchant hostility to Japanese imperialism, the emperor and the emperor system, and U.S. policy adds important nuance to the debate over Hiroshima. Despite the grimness of his early life, Nakazawa never succumbs to pessimism or defeatism. 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But few know Geisel's work as a political cartoonist during World War II for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these marvelously trenchant cartoons, Geisel captured the Zeitgeist--especially the attitudes of the New Deal liberals who read PM--with a wonderful Seussian flair. Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel's cartoons from this time. 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With an emphasis on young people and their educations, this volume interweaves the historical and the contemporary, the laudatory and the critical, the domestic and the foreign. It demolishes all stereotypes of Japan and leaves students with a new appreciation of Japanese diversity. And it challenges students to ask the same questions of their own society that these Japanese are asking of Japan.  Sections with four to seven readings each treat \"Japan before 1850,\" \"The War Years,\" and \"Japan Today.\" Sections with somewhat tighter focus treat \"Textbooks and the Teaching of History,\" \"Nature and Pollution,\" \"Gender.\" A concluding section introduces the topic of \"Japanese Americans.\" The text is accompanied by many boxes, photos, and charts. It is suitable for seventh grade and up. 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