" Just six months after the devastating events of what has come to be known as ‘3.11’, filmmakers began to weave real-life events relating to these catastrophes into their fictional stories. This thesis examines a selection of films made in post-disaster Japan which refer to the triple disaster. While its summary account of the events and aftermath of the triple disaster as well as its innovative framing of contemporary Japanese political discourse both constitute original contributions in themselves, at the heart of this thesis is a set of analyses of a body of recent and hitherto unexamined Japanese films. The core contribution of this thesis is the identification of a significant strand of Japanese cinema made in the wake of the 2011 triple disaster and characterised by references not only to 3.11 but also to trauma. This thesis provides an original conceptual framework for understanding these films, insisting throughout on the importance of adopting a wide-angle critical view that reads contemporary Japanese cinema in the context of national political developments dating back to the 1990s that continue to shape Japan’s vision of the future." (Auszug)

Link: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/41595

"Ōta Yōko’s Literary Dilemma: Who Cares about the Atomic Bomb in Times of Peace?" (Stephan Köhn 2020)

(...) "In this context, the case of author Ōta Yōko 大田 洋子 (1929–63), whose works are hard to find in Japanese bookstores nowadays 3 , must be considered a prime example for the difficulties a survivor had to face when making the decision to provide personal accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. She did so in public, right in the first years after the war – and in the notoriously conservative field of literature, no less. In contrast to John Whittier Treat, who paved the way for further research on Ōta Yōko with his insightful literary analysis 4 , this paper will rather attempt to contextualize Ōta Yōko and her writing historically, paying particular attention to the different dynamics that characterized the first decade of post-war Japanese history." (...)

Links: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f204d021-5e98-4360-818f-2ba497811016/content

Der Beitrag bezieht sich in interpretatorisch-theoretischer Hinsicht auf  die Darlegungen von Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University), der in seinem Ansatz das Trauma als Aspekt der Geschichtsschreibung versteht. 

Dominick LaCapra:Writing History, Writing Trauma (Parallax Re-Visions of Culture and Society). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014.

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Zu LA CAPRA: = "LaCapra explores the aesthetics of “negative sublime” and types of trauma in extreme events, and proposes the theory of “writing trauma” through combining speech act theory and ethics. As a kind of acting-out of the historical trauma, “writing trauma” speaks to and negotiates with the repressed historical consciousness through performative language. It is a poetic “speech act” that serves to work through the historical trauma. Setting aside the objective standard of “representing reality” in historical writing, “writing trauma” integrates historical and literary elements on the ethical level, thus becoming a cultural practice with social ethical significance. "

Einen gesellschaftsbezogenen Ansatz vertritt seit Beginn der 2000er der amerikanische Sozialtheoretiker Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale) =
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/cultural-trauma-and-collective-identity/paper
https://sociology.yale.edu/publications/trauma-social-theory

"In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of trauma work that relates interests of carrier groups, competing narrative identifications of victim and perpetrator, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of constructed events, and the distribution of organizational resources. Alexander explores these processes in richly textured case studies of cultural-trauma origins and effects, from the universalism of the Holocaust to the particularism of the Israeli right, from postcolonial battles over the Partition of India and Pakistan to the invisibility of the Rape of Nanjing in Maoist China. In a particularly controversial chapter, Alexander describes the idealizing discourse of globalization as a trauma-response to the Cold War."
(Trauma: a social theory, Jeffery C. Alexander, 2012)

"The seminar will include presentations from Fraunhofer UMSICHT and Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA) about hydrogen as well as presentations from Fukushima and NRW companies to speak about their products and services." (12. Februar 2025 / @E-world 2025 energy & water, NRW -Booth)

Link: https://www.jetro.go.jp/ext_images/germany/Eworld2025.pdf

Auszug aus dem Exkursionsbericht /  „Farm der Hoffnung":

"Als letztes zeigte uns die „Farm der Hoffnung“ was für einen unvorstellbaren großen sehr negativen Effekt das Atomkraftwerksunglück auf die Landwirtschaft in insbesondere der Region Fukushima hatte. Erzählungen von Bauern, welche aufgrund der hohen Strahlenbelastung nicht zu ihren Tieren konnten und deshalb ihre Viehzucht verhungern lassen mussten, war beunruhigend. Besonders beeindruckend zu sehen war der, Widerstand des Bauern, der seine Viehzucht trotzdem rettete, indem er sich den Regelungen der Regierung widersetzte. 

Er betrat das Sperrgebiet und verstrahlte sich wahrscheinlich zu großen Teilen selbst, um seine Viehzucht zu füttern, und diese vor dem Hungertot zu bewahren, so erzählte er. Um an diese Zeit und das unvorstellbare Unglück zu erinnern hat dieser Bauer ein Monument errichtet, welches direkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zieht, sobald man auch nur in die Nähe der Farm kommt (Siehe Bild). Es wird von Touristen direkt aufgenommen und wirft Fragen auf, welche zu der Geschichte dieser Farm führen." (Originaltext / Update 1.2. 2025)

Link: https://landfermann.de/2025/02/01/gastschuelerinnen-aus-fukushima-am-lfg/

"Wie in jedem Jahr wird auch 2025 die Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft wieder in Kooperation mit der Regionalgruppe Dortmund der IPPNW (Ärztinnen und Ärzte gegen Atomgefahren) zum Jahrestag der Fukushima-Atom-Katastrophe eine Mahnveranstaltung durchführen. Geplant sind Vorträge in Präsenz und online."

Datum: 7. März 2025
Uhrzeit: 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Veranstaltungsort: Auslandsgesellschaft.de e.V.
Steinstraße 48
44147 Dortmund

Dozenten/Referenten: Yoko Schlütermann, Felix Ruwe und Dr. Jürgen Huesmann

Links: https://auslandsgesellschaft.de/veranstaltungen/fukushima-gedenk-veranstaltung-2025-zur-aktuellen-lage-in-fukushima-hybridveranstaltung/

https://sumikai.com/japan-erleben/in-deutschland/vorsitzende-der-deutsch-japanischen-gesellschaft-dortmund-mit-dem-verdienstkreuz-ausgezeichnet-332046/