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March 25, 2011

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But, as anthropologist Peter Wynn Kirby tells us, the Godzilla movies changed over the years, along with Japanese attitudes towards nuclear energy.

Peter Wynn Kirby is a researcher with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University.

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This segment aired on March 25, 2011.

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