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elements-9301	Luedeking, Alessandra	Titan of Terror: A Personification of the Destroyer of Worlds	2016	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2482	140	58	Godzilla’s de- structive acts are never gratuitous; the audience is never invited to admire and derive enjoyment from Godzilla’s “‘If we keep on conducting nuclear tests, it’s possible that another Godzilla might appear somewhere in the world, again.’” Crew MeMber of Daigo fukuryu Maru reCeiving treatMent (courtesy of wikimedia commons) 86 ElEmEnts : : spring 2016 tremendous feats of destructive might. The reduction to “stupid, bestial, even pestilential subhuman caricatures on the enemy” made it easier to tolerate the prospect of mass killing other human beings.6 Indeed, in his private diary, President Harry Truman, in reference to the planned use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki commented: Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old capital or the new” [in reference to Kyoto and Tokyo]…I know that Japan is a terribly cruel and un- civilized nation in warfare…because they are beasts…7 The superiority complex espoused by the United States ex- tended to its occupation of Japan from 1945-1952.	cache/elements-9301.pdf	txt/elements-9301.txt