Reviews

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses by Richard H. Minear

spacestationtrustfund's review

3.0

The fact that American "atompunk" refers to a cool and rebellious retrofuturistic aesthetic while Japanese "atomic bomb literature" refers to writings about the horrific tragedies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be indictment enough.

simonko's review

5.0

I only read the City of Corpses by Ota Yoko. She is extremely personal and her account of the events and afterevents is painfully vivid. She focuses on little details, tells the story of every passerby, describes every dead or dying child by the road. Japanese literature tends to make me sad, but when you know that it is a memoir of sorts of real and horrible event it saddens me even more.
Also, it made me realize that in war there are no bad and good guys. Nazis did what they did to Jew, Japanese dis what they did to Chinese, Americans wiped out two Japanese cities. There are no good guys in a war.