A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

“It is not meant to deny the significance of Barefoot Gen.” Nakazawa let it be known that he wanted the manga series to be translated into as many foreign languages as possible so children ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in ...