Meanings
- A Japanese storyteller or narrator
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The only reason we know about the people described by Southard is that all of them overcame their deep embarrassment and “came out,” as it were, as kataribe, or “storytellers” about the atom bomb, reminding people of the horrors of nuclear war by speaking in public, at schools, conferences and peace gatherings all over the world.
2015 July 28, Ian Buruma, “‘Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War,’ by Susan Southard”, in New York Times
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 語(かた)り部(べ) (kataribe).
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