ロサンゼルスカウンティ美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ロサンゼルスカウンティ美術館Instagram)「This week marks the 75th anniversary of the devastating atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In his works, artist Yoshitomo Nara explores Japan's relationship to nuclear power and energy. Through his own research as a high-schooler, Nara noticed a persistent effort to disassociate the negativity linked to the atomic bomb from the use of nuclear power to rebuild and develop Japan after the war. After the Three Mile Island accident occurred in Pennsylvania in 1979, Nara’s interest in opposing nuclear energy deepened, and “No Nukes” activism began appearing in his work in the mid-1990s, many years before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In July 2012, another Nara figure, the “No Nukes Girl” from his 1998 work "No Nukes," became an unexpectedly powerful symbol when the artist temporarily allowed protesters to download a high-resolution image of the work to brandish during one of Japan’s largest anti-nuclear protests. As many as 100,000 people gathered to rail against the government’s decision to restart two nuclear reactors in Fukui Prefecture, many with this image in hand. Yoshitomo Nara, "No Nukes," 1998, Acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 14⅛ × 8⅞ in. (36 × 22.5 cm), Collection of Masayuki Nagase, © Yoshitomo Nara 1998, photo by Norihiro Ueno, courtesy of the artist.」8月9日 7時38分