Embracing The Victimhood: \nA History Of A-bomb Manga In Japan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the representations of the A-bomb and its victims in Japanese \nmanga. While Keiji Nakazawa's Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) stands tall in this \ngenre, the brief look at the history of A-bomb manga in Japan will reveal that the \nnuclear bombs that killed more than a quarter million people in Hiroshima and \nNagasaki have been a popular topic in Japanese manga and has manifested in \nvariety of manga genres. In overviewing the history of A-bomb manga in Japan, \nthis paper aims to explore the social connotations of A-bomb manga. I wish to show \nthat Japanese manga is a major vehicle in promoting and proliferating the \nGenbaku Otome, or A-bomb beauties myth. This myth lies at the centre of the \nJapanese imagination of the A-bomb victims and which contributes significantly to \nthe establishment of the social notion of victimisation in post-war Japan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".