The beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma and illness with others who are experiencing similar difficulties, emotional pains are alleviated and fears are assuaged. Documentary theatre has expanded in definition from the “epic dramas” of German playwrights Erwin Piscator and Bertholt Brecht during the height of the German Weimar Republic to the recent “verbatim” scripts of playwrights such as Anna Deveare Smith, Emily Mann, and Robin Soans. The dramaturgical duties of the playwright along with the participatory role of the audience have grown in complexity. In verbatim documentary the playwright must straddle a fine line between educating and entertaining while remaining faithful to the words of the respondents as well as to the context in which they were received. The audience, by responding to questionnaires and by engaging in talk-back sessions, plays a pivotal role in production. Documentary serves as an important vehicle for informing and inspiring audiences from all walks of life. In 2010, researchers Dr. Patricia Liehr of the Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Ryutaro Takahashi, Vice Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, approached me to create a documentary based on their combined interviews of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima survivors. The resultant script, With Their Voices Raised, is included as an appendix to this dissertation as an example of the documentary genre and its unique capacity for research dissemination. With Their Voices Raised not only conveys the memories and fears of the survivors, but in its conclusion reveals how these victims of war have elected to live their lives in a quest for peace- choosing “hope over hate” in a shared world / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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本論は、広島の平和記念施設の敷地において、原爆ドーム前身の物産陳列館設立（1915）から慰霊碑後方の「平和の灯」設置（1964）まで、一貫して、平和ではなく繁栄を目指す造営と展示がなされてきたことを明らかにした。また、原爆ドームは、慰霊碑がある南からの眺めでは、原爆犠牲者の象徴のように見做されるのに対し、原爆スラムがあった北からの相貌では、被曝後を生きるものとして捉えられていたことを指摘した。以上のことから、現代における記念碑の意味を問い直した。 / In this dissertation I revealed that there had been consistently construction and exhibitions aimed at prosperity rather than peace, from the establishment of the product display hall (1915), the predecessor of the Atomic Bomb Dome to the setting up of the "Peace Flame" behind the cenotaph (1964) on the site where the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Facility is located. In addition, it was pointed out that the atomic bomb dome was regarded as a symbol of the victims of the atomic bomb in the view from the south where the cenotaph is located, and the appearance from the north where the atomic bomb slum was made to live after exposure. From the above, the meaning of the monument in the present age was questioned again. / 博士(芸術学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Art Theory / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University