Contents
Note on Japanese Names
Godzilla: Godzilla in Tokyo
A Strange Bright Light from the Ocean Floor
The Kaiju of Ōdo Island
The Eerie Island of Ōdo
Godzilla Appears
The Mysterious Trilobite
The Underground Laboratory
We Mustn’t Kill
The Tokyo Godzilla Society
Godzilla Attacks the Metropolitan Center
The Oxygen Destroyer
Prayer for Peace
Godzilla Raids Again: Godzilla in Osaka
Flight over the Ocean
Two Kaiju
Professor Yamane
Godzilla Approaches
Crowds of Evacuees
The Escaped Prisoners
Godzilla Makes Landfall
Anguirus
The Hokkaido Branch
The Far North
Celebrating the Big Catch
Godzilla Appears in the Northern Seas
Kobayashi’s Plane Meets Its End
Nature’s Victory Song
Afterword: Translating an Icon
Jeffrey Angles
Glossary of Names, Places, and Ideas