Description: Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan continues award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan. This volume recounts the events of the final years of the Pacific War, and the consequences of the war's devastation for Shigeru Mizuki, and the Japanese populace at large. After the surprise attack at Pearl Harbour, Japan and the United States are officially at war. The two rival navies wage a series of micro-wars across the tiny Pacific Islands. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, Japan slowly loses ground. Finally, the United States unleashes a new and terrible weapon-the atomic bomb. The fallout from the bombs is beyond imagining. On another front, Showa 1944-1953 traces Shigeru Mizuki's own life story across the sweeping changes dur--ing this period. After losing his arm during the brutal fighting, Mizuki struggles to decide where to go: whether to remain on the island as an honoured friend of the local Tolai people or return to the rubble of Japan and take up his dream of becoming a cartoonist. Showa 1944-1953 is a searing condemnation of the personal toll of war from one of Japan's most famous cartoonists.
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EAN: 9781770461628
UPC: 9781770461628
ISBN: 9781770461628
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Format: Paperback, 560 pages
Recommended Age Range: 12+ years
Author: Mizuki, Shigeru
Book Title: Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan (Showa: A Hist
Item Height: 5.1 cm
Item Length: 22.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.49 kg
Item Width: 15.8 cm
Language: English
Artist/Writer: Zack Davisson, 水木しげる
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Cover Artist: 水木しげる
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Genre: Non-Fiction, Historical
Publication Year: 2014
Character: Admiral Takeo Kurita, General Imamura, Prime Minister Yoshida, Discharged Japanese Soldiers, General Ogisu, Winston Churchill, Yukio, Japanese Sailors, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, Narrator (Nezumi Otoko), Yoshio Kodaira, Hironoshin Furuhashi, Friend, Subhas Chandra Bose, Pan-Pan Girls, Rebirth Society Members, Joseph Dodge, Officers, Admiral Shigearo Shimada, General Douglas A. Macarthur, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Clement Atlee, Japanese Soldiers, Akitsugu Yamazaki, Shigeru's Father, Admiral Soemu Toyoda, Kamikaze Pilots, Friends, American Soldiers, Hayashi, Captain Okamoto, Union Members, Ship Skipper, Katsumaru Suzuki, His Imperial Majesty the Showa Emperor Hirohito, Korean Soldiers, Japanese Civilians, Aramata, Koji KATA, Syngman Rhee, Narrator (Nezumi Otoko) (Rat Man), Kumaya, Sayama, Benito Mussolini, Sunkake Baba (Cameo), General Hideki Tojo, Yoshida, Chinese Soldiers, Surgeons, Kid, Students, Chiang Kai-Shek, Neighbor's Father, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, Black Marketeers, Lieutenant Kogawa, Matsuta Hosoya, Prime Minister Suzuki, Major Naruse, Combat Medic Tanaka, General Renya Mutaguchi, Squad Officers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Sohei, Hideki Tojo, Teachers, Konaki Jiji (Cameo), Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, Admiral Nagumo, Shigenori Togo, Pastor, Battalion Commander, Mo-Chan, Indigenous People, Katsuichi Nagai, Squad Officer, Fujiko Yamamoto, Tolai Indigenous People, Senior Officers, General Hitoshi Imamura, Shigeru's Mother, Takijiro Onishi, Shigeru Mizuki, Neighbor, Seicho Matsumoto, Doctor, Japanese Politicians, President Harry S. Truman, Police, (Rat Man), Sergeant Honda, Hideki Yukawa, Sadanori Shimoyama
Series Title: Showa: a History of Japan
Issue Number: 3
