After Hiroshima: Rebuilding a City and Its Memory
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Wesley Liu reviews the rediscovered memoir Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir, which shifts the focus from the bombing itself to Hiroshima’s weeks and months of rebuilding and the broader work of memory that followed, offering a nuanced view of postwar Japan beyond simple surrender narratives.
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