Beginning with a booklet of poetry entitled “Poems of the Atmoic Bomb” by Sankichi Toge, published in 1951, Japan has produced and continues producing literary and pictorial narratives of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The poets, artists, writers, dramatists were preoccupied with the preservation of memories of the catastrophe so that it would not be repeated again. Dr Yasuko Claremont will be discussing arguments raised by John Whittier Treat, Yale University professor and author of Writing Ground Zero.

Dr Yasuko Claremont is an honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney after 33 years of service.