Editor’s note: This is the last of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in a ...
“It is not meant to deny the significance of Barefoot Gen.” Nakazawa let it be known that he wanted the manga series to be translated into as many foreign languages as possible so children ...
Antiwar manga series Barefoot Gen debuted in Japan in 1973 and has since been published in two dozen languages. On the 50th anniversary of its launch, the woman who translated it into Russian ...