Yuki Miyamoto is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.

"This imaginative and deeply thoughtful book explores a rarely asked question: How does being victimized challenge individuals ethically? Miyamoto explores the ethical and religious resources that Japanese atomic-bomb victims (hibakusha) have deployed to make sense of their experiences and guide their efforts to live good lives after surviving such a shattering event." -- -Laura Hein Northwestern University "Religious studies professor Miyamoto presents a thoughtful, scholarly examination of how the Japanese people remember and memorialize the terrible loss of human life in the atomic bombings of August 1945 and addresses the question of how the horror of the atom bomb should be remembered." -Choice "An extremely important exploration of modern Japan and the role of postwar Japanese thought and religiosity seen in a global setting." -- -Steven Heine Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University "This book promises to generate substantive conversations about how to formulate genuinely self-critical ethical dispositions that remember Japan's horrific past as a means of moving beyond conflicts in the present, and its expansive reach across regional and disciplinary boundaries serves as a model for imaginative research." -- -Levi McLaughlin Journal of Japanese Studies "...a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II." -Midwest Book Review

Yuki Miyamoto is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.

"This imaginative and deeply thoughtful book explores a rarely asked question: How does being victimized challenge individuals ethically? Miyamoto explores the ethical and religious resources that Japanese atomic-bomb victims (hibakusha) have deployed to make sense of their experiences and guide their efforts to live good lives after surviving such a shattering event." -- -Laura Hein Northwestern University "Religious studies professor Miyamoto presents a thoughtful, scholarly examination of how the Japanese people remember and memorialize the terrible loss of human life in the atomic bombings of August 1945 and addresses the question of how the horror of the atom bomb should be remembered." -Choice "An extremely important exploration of modern Japan and the role of postwar Japanese thought and religiosity seen in a global setting." -- -Steven Heine Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University "This book promises to generate substantive conversations about how to formulate genuinely self-critical ethical dispositions that remember Japan's horrific past as a means of moving beyond conflicts in the present, and its expansive reach across regional and disciplinary boundaries serves as a model for imaginative research." -- -Levi McLaughlin Journal of Japanese Studies "...a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II." -Midwest Book Review

Yuki Miyamoto is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.

"This imaginative and deeply thoughtful book explores a rarely asked question: How does being victimized challenge individuals ethically? Miyamoto explores the ethical and religious resources that Japanese atomic-bomb victims (hibakusha) have deployed to make sense of their experiences and guide their efforts to live good lives after surviving such a shattering event." -- -Laura Hein Northwestern University "Religious studies professor Miyamoto presents a thoughtful, scholarly examination of how the Japanese people remember and memorialize the terrible loss of human life in the atomic bombings of August 1945 and addresses the question of how the horror of the atom bomb should be remembered." -Choice "An extremely important exploration of modern Japan and the role of postwar Japanese thought and religiosity seen in a global setting." -- -Steven Heine Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University "This book promises to generate substantive conversations about how to formulate genuinely self-critical ethical dispositions that remember Japan's horrific past as a means of moving beyond conflicts in the present, and its expansive reach across regional and disciplinary boundaries serves as a model for imaginative research." -- -Levi McLaughlin Journal of Japanese Studies "...a thoughtful and scholarly examination of how the Japanese populace remembers and memorializes the loss of so many of its citizens from the 1945 bombings at the close of World War II." -Midwest Book Review