Godzilla Minus One I Historians At The Movies I History Podcast

With Godzilla Minus One tearing up the American and global box office, it's time for another EMERGENCY PODCAST. This week we are joined by two amazing scholars of Japanese social and cultural history in Bill Tsutsui and Akiki Takenaka. We talk about our first impressions of the film, where it fits into Godzilla and WWII lore, and the history of Godzilla himself. This is such a cool conversation and I'm so excited to bring it to you.
About our guests:
Bill Tsutsui is an award-winning scholar and teacher, an experienced academic leader,
and an outspoken supporter of the public humanities, international education,
and more inclusive, accessible colleges and universities. He researches, writes, and speaks widely on Japanese economic and environmental history, Japanese popular culture (especially the Godzilla movies), Japanese-American identity, and issues in higher education. He is highly opinionated about BBQ, proud to have once driven the Zamboni at an NHL game, and slightly embarrassed to be Level 40 in Pokemon Go. Find him at www.billtsutsu...
Akiko Takenaka specializes in social and cultural history of modern Japan. Her research involves memory and historiography of the Asia-Pacific War, gender and peace activism, and history museums. Her teaching interests include gender, war and society, nationalism, memory studies, and visual culture. Prior to coming to UK, she has taught as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.
Professor Takenaka's first book, entitled Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar (University of Hawai'i Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University), explores Yasukuni Shrine as a physical space, object of visual and spatial representation, and site of spatial practice in order to highlight the complexity of Yasukuni’s past and critique the official narratives that postwar debates have responded to. Her second book project Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Postwar Japan is under advance contract with the University of Hawai'i Press. Her research has been funded by long-term research fellowships by Fulbright and the Japan Foundation. Find her on twitter at @ata225

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Godzilla is TATARIGAMI as mention Takashi Yamazaki in a interview, TATARIGAMI is a spirit (high-dimensional being) that continued to be feared even after it died a violent death as a human. There is also a theory that he is the incarnation of a heroic spirit who died during WW2. (TATARIGAMI is also depicted in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. The black stain is common in both films.) Although TATARIGAMI is a wild spirit and is feared and shunned, if it is carefully enshrined, it can become a powerful guardian deity. They are the gods that are worshiped.
How would you describe the existence between God and living things as follows? The director and CG artists spent more than six months developing Godzilla's walking style.
“Is Godzilla Leviathan? “theory
Leviathan is a sea creature or monster that appears in the Old Testament, and its name is said to be derived from the Hebrew word meaning "to join" or "to knit together."
Chapter 41 of the Book of Job can be summarized as follows. "Leviathan's body is strong and well-built, his heart is as hard as stone, his stomach looks like a row of pottery shards, and his back is lined with dense rows of shield-like scales. His mouth is He has terrifying teeth. When he sneezes, he emits light. His eyes are like the morning sun. Flames come out of his mouth, smoke blows from his nose, and his breath lights coals. He can turn the sea into a pot. He swims through the deep abyss, leaving streaks of light like white hair. No weapon can pierce Leviathan or harm him. There is nothing else on earth that can match him, and he knows no fear. No. No one can fight Leviathan and make it submit, and just looking at it is enough to make you lose your will to fight.''
It is unclear whether Godzilla's settings were directly influenced by Leviathan, but
One of the reasons why it is accepted worldwide
Isn't that an interesting view?

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