Godzilla
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The film Godzilla contains numerous metaphors and references pertaining to Japanese-American historical and contemporary relations. One character comments about the destruction “Many people have had their lives changed forever.” The same could be true about many Japanese after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, (Emmerich 1998). “Gojira” (Godzilla) is a monster lizard. Not only does his being a monster act as a metaphor for the U.S. annihilation of two Japanese cities, but such monstrous things have developed due to atomic weapons. For Godzilla is a monstrous, mutant form of life that Dr. Niko Tatopoulus argues is a result of U.S. nuclear testing in French Polynesia, “It was first sighted off the Polynesian Pacific. That area has been subject to dozens of nuclear tests,” (Emmerich 1998). Godzilla smashes everything in “her” path just like the U.S. and atomic weapons did in Japan to end World War II.A symbol of the darkness and fallout experienced by those who survived the atomic blasts in Ja
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