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Die Seiten der Textinitiative Fukushima werden derzeit von der Japanologie der Goethe-Universität betrieben. Gegenwärtiges Anliegen von TIF ist die zeitgeschichtliche Dokumentation. Das Forum dient nun in erster Linie als Archiv für Informationen zu 3/11 sowie allgemein zur Geschichte des Atomaren. Die Suchfunktion ermöglicht Recherchen zu Stichworten, Inhalten und Akteuren.

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VORTRAG Steffi Richter: "Unsichtbares sichtbar machen. ‚The Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels'“ am 4. Dezember 2025 im Museum Fünf Kontinente / München

"Mit ihrer Eröffnung im Jahr 1967 unweit von Tokyo wurde die Maruki-Galerie Heimstatt für die als Genbaku no zu 『原爆の図』(Hiroshima Panels) bekannt gewordenen Wandbilder des Künstlerpaars Maruki (Maruki Iri/1901-1995 und Maruki Toshi/1912-2000). Die ersten sieben des insgesamt fünfzehn Gemälde umfassenden Zyklus, der zwischen 1950 und 1982 entstand, thematisieren unmittelbar die Opfer der über Hiroshima abgeworfenen Atombombe. Noch unter den Bedingungen der US-amerikanischen Besatzung und Zensur gingen die Künstler mit den Bildern zunächst in Japan selbst auf Wanderschaft, zeigten Millionen von Ausstellungsbesuchern erstmals das von den Bomben verursachte menschliche Leid. Auf ihren 1953 beginnenden Reisen in zahlreiche Länder der Welt wurden beide Künstler auch international wichtige Akteure der Friedens- und Anti-Atomkriegsbewegung. (...)"

4. Dezember 2025: 18 Uhr
Ort: Museum Fünf Kontinente, Maximilianstraße 42, 80538 München
Eintritt frei. Eine vorherige Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.

Links: https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortrag-von-prof-dr-steffi-richter


Kunst nach Fukushima: "Art of the Soil: Reflections of Nuclear Disaster in Post-Fukushima Japanese Art" von Max C. Gerlach (2024)

"I would like to briefly outline the core interpretive assertions associated with each analytical section of my paper. Beginning with art from the postwar era, I explore how Japanese artists use their work surrounding the atomic bomb to convey themes such as that of hope for recovery and for a peaceful future. While artists from the postwar era undoubtedly worked to represent and memorialize the suffering of atomic bomb victims, there remains an underlying depiction in their artwork of a Japanese society that comes together in the face of nuclear disaster and forges toward a peaceful tomorrow.

Moving into post-Fukushima art as representation, my findings indicate a thematic shift away from hope and peace and instead toward a nuanced depiction of the disparity between the corporations responsible for nuclear power plant disasters and the rural communities most affected by them. While Japanese society’s ability to come together in the face of nuclear disaster remains a common theme, post-Fukushima art as representation explores the ways in which rural communities have been disproportionately affected by the disaster, pulling away from the idea of a totally unified front.

Finally, my analysis of post-Fukushima art as protest demonstrates the most drastic shift away from themes found in postwar nuclear disaster-related art. Themes in this section implicate Japanese society itself as an agent of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. While protest-art from both the postwar era and the post-Fukushima era points an accusatory finger at the government and big corporations, post-Fukushima work suggests that Japanese society is complicit in creating the socio-political environment in which the Fukushima meltdown could happen. This thematic evolution is not only a reflection of a changing artistic tradition in Japan, but it also reflects a changing Japanese society. Leaning on Connerton’s definition of collective memory, I claim that changing themes in nuclear disaster-related art reflects how Japanese society is more acutely aware of the disparate plight of rural communities living around nuclear power plants and of its own responsibility for nuclear disaster than it was before Fukushima." (Max C. Gerlach, University of Vermont, 2024)

Link: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/hcoltheses/639/


Rückblick: Kunst in der Sperrzone - Koizumi Meiros 小泉明郎 "Home Drama" (2022)

"Consistent with Koizumi’s oeuvre, the work teases and troubles the boundaries between private experience and wider social phenomena – in this case, the effects of the ongoing nuclear disaster and resulting displacement on private, domestic life and its exposure to the public as artwork."

"Mr Y imagines and acts out a conversation he and his wife might have had over their first dinner after returning to Futaba. His delivery, slow, relaxed and in a Northeastern drawl, is disarming and unaffected. The conversation goes something like this:

“I’m home. I’m home. I’m home.”
“You’re back. Cold day today. Want me to turn the stove on?”
“No, that’s alright. What’s for dinner?”

As they talk (or as he imagines they’d talk), he presciently surmises that any return to their home in this town devastated by nuclear disaster will be complex."
(ArtReview Asia, Art in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone/Taro Nettleton, 21. November 2022)

Links: https://artreview.com/art-in-the-fukushima-exclusion-zone/
https://www.meirokoizumi.com/about = "Meiro Koizumi (b. 1976, Japan, Lives and works in Yokohama) is recognized for his experimental video installations and immersive environments. His practice often explores the tension between private emotion and collective memory, and examines how systems of power—whether political, cultural, or technological—shape the individual. Working across video, drawing, sculpture, and more recently VR and AI, he consistently draws viewers into psychological spaces where fragility, authority, and identity are put to the test. His experimental VR Theater piece “Prometheus Bound” won the Grand Prize in the 24th Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2021, he won Artes Mundi Prize (Cardiff, UK)."
https://www.meirokoizumi.com/


Koizumi Meiro (2022)


VERANSTALTUNG an der San José State University: "Hope with Hiroshima: How can we achieve a world without nuclear threats?"

"The award of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize given to Nihon Hidankyo (a group of Atomic- and Hydrogen-Bomb sufferers) is sounding a loud alarm for the world about the imminent threats of nuclear weapons in the current world. Let us think of what we can do for the world without nuclear weapons.

The program includes:
- Learning about nuclear weapons
- A survivor’s story
- Student presentations
- Introductions of younger generations' actions
- musical production
- chorus
- paper-crane folding".

Student Union Theater Courtyard
149-157 S 9th St, San Jose, CA 95112, United States
Friday, November 21, 2025 2:00am to 4:15am GMT+1 
Links: https://events.sjsu.edu/event/hopewithhiroshima
https://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/nihon-hidankyo-friedensnobelpreis-100.html

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Nihon_Hidankyō  日本被団協: "Zu den Zielen der Organisation gehören vor allem der Einsatz gegen einen nuklearen Krieg sowie die Vernichtung aller nuklearen Waffen und die Schaffung und Unterzeichnung eines internationalen Vertrages zur Ächtung von Atomwaffen. Außerdem fordert sie eine staatliche Entschädigung für die Opfer und Schäden der Atombombenabwürfe und begründet diese dadurch, dass der Staat sich am Weltkrieg beteiligt und damit die Schäden durch die Bombardierung zu verantworten hat. Schließlich fordert sie eine Sicherung des Schutzes und Unterstützung der Hibakusha, von denen damals noch mehr als 300.000 in Japan und viele weitere in Korea und anderen Teilen der Welt lebten. Für das Jahr 2024 wurde nach Erhebungen des japanischen Gesundheitsministeriums festgestellt, dass das Durchschnittsalter der lebenden Hibakusha 85,58 Jahre betrug und es sich im März 2024 um 106.825 in Japan lebende Personen handelte, die zum größten Teil in Hiroshima (51.275 Personen) und Nagasaki (25.966 Personen) lebten."

(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Hidankyō)


FUKUSHIMA Think Tank F-REI

"The Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation (commonly known as F-REI) is a special corporation established on April 1, 2023 under the Act on Special Measures for the Reconstruction and Revitalization of Fukushima.

In addition to providing dreams and hopes for realizing the reconstruction of Fukushima and other prefectures in the Tohoku region, F-REI aims to become a world-renowned “central institute for creative reconstruction” which drives forward with enhancing the scientific capabilities, technological capabilities and industrial competitiveness of Japan and contributes to economic growth and improvement to the daily lives of people living in Japan."

Links: https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal/f-rei-overview.html
https://www.f-rei.go.jp/english/
https://www.f-rei.go.jp/english/activity/international-symposium-2025-eng.html


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