Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Memories and Media Content Yasuhiro Inoue Visiting researcher at UH Mānoa and professor at Hiroshima City University March 20, 2014 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics, Room 110 (Diamond Head of the Kuykendall Annex) The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at the start of the Pacific War, and the U.S. set off an apocalyptic event in the last moment of World War II by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. What is the relationship between these two major events? Since Spring 2013 Professor Yasuhiro Inoue has been investigating how people associate these two historical and tragic events in their memories and understandings, and how the U.S. media (the government propaganda as well) covered and “framed” these events. Professor Inoue will share insights gathered from his research, along with media coverage of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and stories from interviews of WW II veterans and American atomic bomb survivors, to illustrate how and where these events are related. Yasuhiro Inoue came to the Matsunaga Institute as a visiting researcher, April 2013, from Hiroshima City University (HCU), a sister university of UHM. Inoue is a former news reporter at Japanese national newspapers and currently a professor of media studies at HCU. He has been an organizing committee member and an instructor of HIROSHIMA and PEACE, a UHM (Matsunaga Institute) and HCU mutually accredited summer program.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:21:00 +0000
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