HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima’s municipal board ... “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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the last 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 a ...

Asazuma Namie translated Barefoot Gen to ensure that people abroad would know the story of Hiroshima. Asazuma Namie, 80, studied Russian at university and began translating the works in her spare ...