The influence of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki runs deep in Japanese popular culture. One of the most famous examples of this is Godzilla, a prehistoric creature awakened by the ...

From Godzilla's fiery atomic breath to post-apocalyptic anime and harrowing depictions of radiation sickness, the influence ...

For about two thirds of its page count, Rick Wallach’s In Search of Godzilla: Myth, Stagecraft and Politics in Ishiro Honda’s Masterpiece fares as a surprisingly pensive study on one of the landmarks ...