In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted ...

In 1945, the road from Manchuria to Japan was hundreds of miles away. The boy learned to adapt to the dangers of starvation, and his body trembled with his dark eyes fixed on the sky. In 1959, the boy, named...

"If nuclear power plants cannot run without people who work under radiation exposure, shouldn't they be treated more favorably and given more respect, even if they are not the 'Fukushima Fifty'?" -Susumu Kat...