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This paper examines the courage in the 1950s of Hisaye Yamamoto, one of the most well-known Nisei writers. While other Japanese American writers mentioned atomic bombing only after 1980, Yamamoto voiced protest against the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in “The Streaming Tears” in 1951. In this story, she criticized the low level of US public awareness concerning atomic bombing. At the time of publication, anti-Japanese sentiments had not yet been suppressed, and the US and Russia were competing in a nuclear arms race during the Cold War. Yamamoto may have fully recognized that her works would not be accepted in the US, which boasted a strong military force. However, she was intolerant of atomic bombing, which disregarded the laws of humanity. By describing the suffering of an A-bomb pilot, she protested against the use of nuclear weapons justified by the US government. |
