Wakamatsu Jōtarō
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Wakamatsu Jōtarō (若 松 丈 太郎; * 1935 in Ōshū) is a Japanese poet and essayist. Wakamatsu, who comes from Fukushima Prefecture, has gained national fame through his literary prophecy of a GAU in northeastern Japan after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011.
Wakamatsu Jōtarō (若 松 丈 太郎; * 1935 in Ōshū) is a Japanese poet and essayist. Wakamatsu, who comes from Fukushima Prefecture, has gained national fame through his literary prophecy of a GAU in northeastern Japan after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011. Wakamatsu started writing about a hypothetical nuclear accident in Fukushima after a visit to Chernobyl in 1994 as part of a citizens’ inquiry. He was active as a High-School teacher, a poet and an anti-nuclear activist starting in the late 1960s. Wakamatsu made his literary debut in 1961 with the volume of poems Yoru no mori (“The Night Forest”), for which he was awarded the Fukushima Prefecture Literature Prize in the year of publication. Many of his early poems and texts were initially self-published or in regional magazines. It was only after the turn of the millennium that his works were published by major Japanese publishers. He gained national attention in 2011 through his critical statements regarding the risks of nuclear power and the premonition of a disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plants, which Wakamatsu had prophesied in poems and essays since the mid-1990s and his trip to Chernobyl.
Many of his texts on nuclear issues were reprinted after 2011, especially in the collections Fukushima genpatsu nanmin: Minamisōma-shi - Ichi shijin no keikoku 1971nen ~ 2011nen (“Fukushima-atomic refugee - Minamisōma ・ The warnings of a poet. 1971– 2011”) and Fukushima kakusai kimin: Machi ga merutodaun-shite shimatte (“Those left in the lurch of the Fukushima nuclear disaster: cities that fell victim to the meltdown”). Futher Reading
Further reading
• Judith Brandner: Der Prophet, der keiner sein wollte – Wakamatsu Jōtarō und Fukushima. In: MINIKOMI. 2016. Nr. 85, S. 33–42. • Christian Chappelow: Kritische Lyrik nach ‚Fukushima‘ – Henmi Yō und sein Gedichtband Me no umi, In: Lisette Gebhardt und Evelyn Schulz (eds.): Neue Konzepte japanischer Literatur. Nationalliteratur, literarischer Kanon und die Literaturtheorie. 2014. Berlin: EB-Verlag 2014. pp. 253–276. (Reihe zur japanischen Literatur und Kultur. 8) • Christian Chappelow: "Die Kirschblüte in Hansaki" – Gedichtübersetzung anlässlich des neunten Jahrestages von 3/11. "Textinitiative Fukushima" vom 11. März 2020. Link: http://textinitiative-fukushima.de/ • Andreas Singler: Sayōnara Atomkraft. Proteste in Japan nach „Fukushima“. Berlin: EB-Verlag 2018.
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