List of abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: competing and merging pacifist imaginaries in postwar Japan

1 Emerging constitutional pacifism

2 Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident and anti-nuclear and nuclear pacifism

3 Survivors’ parallel worlds

4 Start of Hiroshima’s anti-nuclear movement and Moritaki’s anti-nuclear imaginary

5 Movement to save survivors

6 Peace administration and institutionalized Hiroshima Heart

7 Hibakusha as storytellers

8 Hibakusha self-help movement challenging the state aid regime

9 Anti-nuclear power movement

10 Reviving constitutional pacifism in Hiroshima

11 Fukushima accident and its impact on Hiroshima

12 Post-Fukushima Hiroshima movements challenging Hiroshima pacifism

13 Hiroshima caught between proactive pacifism and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Conclusion: pacifism as imaginary and institution

Index