Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Publisher pulls controversial manga: Japan Today reports that publisher Shueisha Inc. will suspend publication of a weekly manga about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre after protests from politicians. Shueisha said it will pull Kuni Ga Moeru (The Country is Burning), by popular cartoonist Hiroshi Motomiya, from the Oct. 13 and 28 editions of Weekly Young Jump.