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Our purpose is to inquire into whether Japanese survivors of Hiroshima experienced metaphysical guilt in the Jaspersian sense. This question has originally been raised by Alan M. Olson in his essay "Metaphysical Guilt" (Existenz, Vol. 3/1 Spring 2008, pp. 9-19), where he emphasizes that Jaspers famously referred to metaphysical guilt as the guilt "of being still alive"(1) in the case of surviving citizens of post-Nazi Germany. In connection with this, Olson mentions the HBO Documentary, White Light/Black Rain, (2) commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us examine how he poses the question then:
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