{"id":751,"date":"2011-05-12T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=751"},"modified":"2011-05-12T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:11:25","slug":"hiroshima-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms<\/strong> by Fumiyo Kouno (hardback, 104pp, $14.95)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kouno.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-753\" title=\"Kouno\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kouno.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of: Town of Evening Calm\" width=\"300\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kouno.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kouno-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This manga book contains three interlinked stories about the survivors of an ordinary Japanese Hiroshima family, from 1945 to the present day. The stories cover three generations. The <em>hibakusha<\/em>, or bomb survivors, suffered both from radiation sickness and prejudice from those not exposed. I remember that when I was young, the Hiroshima victims were much discussed, but with the passage of time and mortality (the youngest first-generation <em>hibakusha<\/em> now being at least 66 years old) they have been forgotten.<br \/>\nThis book, a charming if bitter-sweet approach to its subject, is a timely reminder. In the first story, in 1955 a dying <em>hibakusha<\/em> says &#8220;I wonder if the people who dropped the bomb are pleased with themselves &#8211; &#8216;Yes! Got another one!&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\nThe text is thought-provoking, while the art charmingly brings to life its homely characters.<br \/>\nIf you want the military historian view of what led to this, you could do worse than read &#8220;<strong>Sealing Their Fate- Twenty-two days that decided the Second World War<\/strong>&#8221; by David Downing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno (hardback, 104pp, $14.95) This manga book contains three interlinked stories about the survivors of an ordinary Japanese Hiroshima family, from 1945 to the present day. The stories cover three generations. The hibakusha, or bomb survivors, suffered both from radiation sickness and prejudice from those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hiroshima Manga&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,12,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}