Duró provides a rigorous analysis on how Korean hibakusha and non-resident survivors were extended rights as legal hibakusha in postwar Japan through a web of actions by a community of Koreans and Japanese, survivors and others, responding to the historical injustices of both nuclear warfare and empire.

Robert A. Jacobs, Professor Emeritus of History, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Eight decades since August 1945 events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki feel as if they are beginning to fade from memory, but this is certainly not true in Japan nor in/on the hearts, minds and bodies of atomic bomb survivors and their families. Ágota Duró's powerful, insightful, and empathetic book highlights this through deep engagement with grassroots organizations dedicated to supporting Korean bombing victims (hibakusha), who have been subject to multiple layers of forgetting and bureaucratic obfuscation. This rare account of engagement between Koreans and Japanese, amidst landscapes of political and social contestation, is a vital contribution to its field.

Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK