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War and Japan: The Non-Fiction Manga of Mizuki Shigeru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Matthew Penney
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Many Japanese neonationalists contend that it is “masochistic” to look critically at the nation's wars of the 1930s and 1940s. They assume that criticism of Japanese militarism and love of the country and its traditions are somehow mutually exclusive. In place of an honest look at past crimes, revisionists present Japan as a victim, originally of Western imperialism, and now of a conspiracy of defamation by its neighbors.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , e13
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[1] Mizuki Shigeru, Honjitsu no Mizuki-san (Today's Mr. Mizuki), Tokyo: Soshisha, 2005, p. 98.

[2] Ibid., p. 39.

[3] Ibid., p. 39.

[4] Ibid., p. 39.

[5] Ibid., p. 135.

[6] Mizuki Shigeru, Akuma-kun, Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008.

[7] Mizuki Shigeru, Hitler, Tokyo: Chikuma Shoten, 1990.

[8] Mizuki Shigeru, “Soin Gyokusai seyo!” in Aa Gyokusai (Ah, Death to the Last), Tokyo: Ozora Shuppan, 2007.

[9] Mizuki Shigeru, Showa-shi, Vol. 1, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989.

[10] Shimura Kunihiro, Mizuki Shigeru no miryoku (The Charm of Mizuki Shigeru), Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, 2002, p. 43.

[11] Kobayashi Yoshinori, Sensoron, Tokyo: Gentosha, 1998. See also Rumi Sakamoto, “Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?” Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron“

[12] Arakawa Hiromu, Hagane no renkinjutsushi, Vol. 1, Tokyo: Square Enix, 2002.

[13] Ichikawa Miu, et al., Senso no shinjitsu, Tokyo: Bunkasha, 2008.

[14] Mizuki Shigeru, “Naki senyu ga egakaseta senki manga” (War Manga that My Dead Comrades Made Me Draw) in Aa gyokusai, Tokyo: Azora Shuppan, 2007, pp., 185-186.