Post-Nuclear Era Japan | I Live In Fear

Using I Live in Fear as a case study, crisis has been shown to impair our ability to judge reality as a result of our own weakness and fear. In the case of the atomic bombings, their effect on culture was heavily exacerbated due to both public policy and magnitude. However, as Japan as a society and culture has undergone a process of recovery it gives us hope that modern crises can also be recovered from.