{"product_id":"showa-history-of-japan-gn-vol-01-1926-1939-shigeru-mizuki","title":"SHOWA HISTORY OF JAPAN GN VOL 01 1926-1939 SHIGERU MIZUKI","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA fascinating period in Japanese history recounted by manga’s most distinguished author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowa 1926–1939: A History of Japan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lays the groundwork for Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s historical and autobiographical series about Japanese life in the twentieth century. Depicted against his trademark photorealistic backdrops, Mizuki effortlessly portrays a nation forced into a period of upheaval and brings history into the realm of the personal. Indeed, as a child coming of age in the Showa era, the author’s earliest memories coincide with key events of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt all begins with the Great Kanto Earthquake, a natural disaster that forces the country into a financial crisis. The period leading up to World War II is thus a time of economic hardship and record unemployment. Forthright descriptions of ensuing militarization reveal Mizuki’s lifelong stance as a thoughtful pacifist, critical of domestically disputed events like the Nanjing Massacre clearly painted here as an atrocity. This first volume in a four-part series is a captivating historical portrait tracking the industrial and societal developments that would come to shape Japan's foreign policy in the interwar period.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44348857385269,"sku":"9781770466258","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/products\/81LuGKP8HBL.jpg?v=1675129828","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/showa-history-of-japan-gn-vol-01-1926-1939-shigeru-mizuki","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}