Japanese Culture Without Nukes?

Hopefully not too complex a question, but how did the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki affect the development of Japanese society and culture into the late 20th Century?
 
Hopefully not too complex a question, but how did the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki affect the development of Japanese society and culture into the late 20th Century?


Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there would be no Godzilla movies. He was awakened in the first movie due to atomic bombs, indicating a direct influence from the end of WWII and postwar nuclear testing. This likely means kaiju movies in general don't exist in this alternate Japan.
 
Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there would be no Godzilla movies. He was awakened in the first movie due to atomic bombs, indicating a direct influence from the end of WWII and postwar nuclear testing. This likely means kaiju movies in general don't exist in this alternate Japan.
In addition, less apocalypse stuff in Japanese made media, especially video games; hell Akira and such would be butterflied away. And come to think of it, the Japanese public would be less adverse to nuclear weapons and having them around would be more popular than OTL.
 
Depends on the POD. A Japan w/o the wars is going to be vastly different from one that's been starved and conventionally bombed back into the stone age or one that's been invaded.
 
I always thought of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent surrender, as the end of Japanese Imperialism and its effects on Japanese life.

Without the nukes, and likely if WWII is butterflied (although I don’t personally see how), I’d see Japanese politics as much more authoritarian and have greater power exerted by the emperor than ITTL. Japanese culture would probably be more traditionalist and conservative in its scope, too.

If you want to go real far, and say America never occupies Japan after WWII, it’s safe to say that manga, and as an extension, anime, probably is entirely butterflied, or at least much less prolific than ITTL.
 

xsampa

Banned
Among the many things that would never be introduced or appear in a no-occupation timeline:
  • Baseball. The Japanese adopted it after watching American troops play, so TTL’s Japan would probably adopt something more international as its key ball sport, like soccer, or a localized sport like rugby, which was introduced in 1874 and became moderately popular.
  • Hentai, tentacle porn, and similar types of erotica. Due to strict interpretations of the censorship law Article 175, authorities would not permit these to be published.
 
  • Hentai, tentacle porn, and similar types of erotica. Due to strict interpretations of the censorship law Article 175, authorities would not permit these to be published.

Japanese erotica predates WWII by some margin. Western erotica was illegal for a long time - didn't stop it from being produced.
 
In addition, less apocalypse stuff in Japanese made media, especially video games; hell Akira and such would be butterflied away. And come to think of it, the Japanese public would be less adverse to nuclear weapons and having them around would be more popular than OTL.
Also, the Metal Gear series may end up as a mecha game where you control the eponymous machines in all its glory instead if it isn't butterflied away.
 
Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there would be no Godzilla movies. He was awakened in the first movie due to atomic bombs, indicating a direct influence from the end of WWII and postwar nuclear testing. This likely means kaiju movies in general don't exist in this alternate Japan.
I remember one ASB scenario where nukes are impossible, so Japan is brought to it's knees partly through the extensive use of chemical weapons. Instead of Kaiju, Japan becomes known for it's zombie movies.
 

xsampa

Banned
Japanese erotica predates WWII by some margin. Western erotica was illegal for a long time - didn't stop it from being produced.

I assumed that because the Japanese state in a no-occupation scenario would be totalitarian, like it was in the years leading up to ww2, that it would have the capability to detect and shut down production of erotica.
 
Among the many things that would never be introduced or appear in a no-occupation timeline:
  • Baseball. The Japanese adopted it after watching American troops play, so TTL’s Japan would probably adopt something more international as its key ball sport, like soccer, or a localized sport like rugby, which was introduced in 1874 and became moderately popular.
  • Hentai, tentacle porn, and similar types of erotica. Due to strict interpretations of the censorship law Article 175, authorities would not permit these to be published.

Professional Baseball was established in Japan in 1934 with the Dai Nippon Tokyo Yakyu Kurabu. They toured the US in 1935, playing semi-pro and Pacific League teams.
 
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