Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

Japanese scholars in Tokyo have begun to take cognizance of the situation, and studies of social change in Hiroshima are being initiated by a research team from Keio University. See Keizō Yoneyama, "Hibakuchi Hiroshima ni Miru Shakai Hendō (Social Change Observable in [Atomic-] Bombed Hiroshima)", Hōgaku Kenkyū ( 1964) 37:57-97; and Yoneyama and Kawai, "Genebaku to Shakai Hendō (The A-Bomb and Social Change)", ibid. ( 1965) 38, Nos. 9 and 10. Earlier sociological and psychological research efforts include: S. Nakano, "Genbaku Eikyō no Shakaigakuteki Chōsa (Sociological Study of Atomic Bomb Effects)", Daigakujinkai Kenkyūronshū I ( April, 1954), and "Genbaku to Hiroshima (The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima)", in Shinshū Hiroshima-shi-Shi (Newly Revised History of Hiroshima City) ( Hiroshima Shiyakusho, 1951); Y. Kubo, "Data About the Suffering and Opinion of the A-bomb Sufferers," Psychologia ( 1961) 4:56-59 (in English); and "A Study of A-bomb Sufferers' Behavior in Hiroshima: A Sociopsychological Research on A-bomb and A-energy," Japanese Journal of Psychology ( 1952) 22:103-110 (English abstract); T. Misao, "Characteristics in Abnormalities Observed in Atom-bombed Survivors," Journal of Radiation Research ( 1961) 2:85-97 (in English), in which various psychosomatic patterns are described; Irving L. Janis , Air War and Emotional Stress ( New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), particularly chapters 1-3; and United States Strategic Bombing Survey Reports, The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale ( Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947). Additional studies of social aspects of the atomic bomb problem are being conducted under the direction of Kiyoshi Shimizu at the Hiroshima University Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology; and some of the group's findings are presented in Dr. Shimizu article "Little-Known Effects of the Bomb," Japan Quarterly ( 1967) 14:93-98 (in English). I have published two essays dealing with aspects of my study: "Psychological Effects of theAtomic Bomb in Hiroshima,"