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Total killed: 129,000–226,000. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
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- Hira-E: The New Kamishibai
- Published Educational Kamishibai
- Kokusaku (Government Policy) Kamishibai
- Post-War Kamishibai
- The Globalization of Kamishibai
Because of their often sensationalistic content, street performances of all kinds were subject to frequent bans by the authorities, and kamishibai was no exception. In 1929, when tachi-e was undergoing a ban, three street performers in Tokyo (Takahashi Seizō, Gotō Terakura, and Tanaka Jirō) put their heads together to develop a new form of picture-...
In the early 1930s, Japan was suffering from a world-wide depression that sent the unemployed from all walks of life into the streets. With few other options, many became gaitō kamishibai performers. The new hira-estyle of kamishibai did not require extensive training, and almost anyone with a bicycle, a stage, and a voice could set up in the trade...
Without this increase in publishers of educational kamishibai, it is unlikely that Japan’s militaristic government would have called upon kamishibai to play such a pivotal role as a media for propaganda in the build up to World War II. By the beginning of World War II (1941-1945) and middle of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), published kam...
The use of kamishibai for propaganda during World War II made it an object of particular scrutiny when the war ended. General Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Powers were anxious to purge Japan of its former Imperialist ambitions, and kamishibai performers after the war had to get their stamp of approval. Nonetheless, people turned once again in dr...
Perhaps the biggest growth in interest in kamishibai as a format is happening outside Japan. Artists and kamishibai practitioners involved in the tezukuri kamishibai movement have actively been transporting kamishibai to countries throughout Asia and the middle-east to encourage local artists to create their own stories. Gaitō street performance ar...
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Nov 18, 2009 · In fact, between mid-April 1945 (when President Harry Truman took office) and mid-July, Japanese forces inflicted Allied casualties totaling nearly half those suffered in three full years of...
Apr 5, 2024 · Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war. Tens of thousands were killed in the blasts and thousands more would die of radiation poisoning.
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Aug 7, 2014 · As one scholar who studied the U.S. invasion plan, Operation Downfall, notes: “depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied...
Kamishibai is a form of picture storytelling that evolved in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the coming of World. War II, it became one of the most widely used mediums for. propaganda , targeting both children on the homefront and newly. colonized nations.
Burns caused about 60 percent of the deaths in Hiroshima and about 80 percent in Nagasaki. Falling debris and flying glass caused 30 percent of the deaths in Hiroshima and 14 percent in Nagasaki. Radiation caused 10 percent of the deaths in Hiroshima and 6 percent in Nagasaki.
