Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Recounting Hiroshima: Japan's Daily Yomiuri talks with translator Namie Asazuma about the publication of the English-language version of Barefoot Gen, a manga depicting the horrors of nuclear warfare:

"I really want Americans, who dropped the atomic bombs, to read the comic. I believe if more people read it, the threat of nuclear weapons and the horror of war would be understood worldwide."