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Summer

2020

Godzilla as the Bridge: The Destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima

Published
2020-06-18

Abstract

After the Triple Disasters of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi on March 11, 2011, visual artists around the world repurposed the image of Godzilla to represent the Japanese urban destruction, creating a visual bridge between that day and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.