Abstract
The August 10 letter from twenty-four members of Congress caused a stir in the Japanese press, where the attacks on the exhibition from the veterans’ organizations had already made a strong impression. On August 23, 1994, Kenji Ohara, the new associate director at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, wrote to Tom Crouch,
Would you inform us of recent claims by veterans and Congressmen?
How will you re-examine the contents of the script? Will you make any changes in the script we have received? If you make any changes, we would like you to give us an outline and schedule. After you make some changes, we would like you to send us a Japanese script with all changes immediately.
We are going to present to the press the script... as a final script from [the] Smithsonian Institution, if the claims by veterans and Congressmen do not cause you to make any [further] changes...1
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Kenji Ohara, letter to Tom Crouch, August 23, 1994, NASM/MH.
Kenji Ohara, letter to Tom Crouch, August 30, 1994, NASM/MH.
Tom Crouch, letter to Kenji Ohara, August 30, 1994, NASM/MH.
Martin Harwit, letter to Takakazu Kuriyama, September 2, 1994, NASM/MH.
Martin Harwit, letter to Hitoshi Motoshima, September 6, 1994, NASM/MH.
Yoshio Saito, letter to President of the Smithsonian Institution, October 13, 1994, NASM/MH.
Takeshi Ito, Sakae Ito, and Senji Yamaguchi, letter to President of the United States, October 4, 1994, NASM/MH.
Hitoshi Motoshima, letter to Martin Harwit, November 17, 1994 NASM/MH.
Senji Yamaguchi, letter, translated by Wakako Takeuji, and forwarded to Martin Harwit by Hitoshi Motoshima on November 17, 1994, NASM/MH.
Brian Burke-Gaffney, letter to Martin Harwit, November 28, 1994, NASM/MH.
Martin Harwit, letter to Hitoshi Motoshima, December 17, 1994, NASM/MH.
Tatsuya Itoh, telefax to Martin Harwit January 7, 1995, MH.
Notes on phone call with Dr. Okajima, January 9, 1995, MH.
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Harwit, M. (1996). Japanese Doubts. In: An Exhibit Denied. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7905-8_27
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