San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers...

Showa 1926–1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II...

Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga;...

A spy mystery taking place at the beginning of the Showa era.

An anthology of three Tezuka oneshots from the late 1960's. The Runaway Tanker - Newscaster Goro Tsukinashi is invited to board the world's first atomic-powered, computer-operated oil tanker, the Osakabe Maru...

From Fantasyshrine: 1,6-7) The Tongue-Lashing LuciferAfter their H-packed honeymoon, Colonel Michel Rosenberg and his love, Hans, should be enjoying their peaceful life in the battlefront if not for the enemy...

Aozora Okami is the teenage son of a boxer who was sent off to fight in the Second World War. After the bombings, he and his younger sister Akari are left as war orphans doing their best to survive. When its...

From Nakama: For a captain and a subordinate, pure love is born out of an unfeeling time of war, strict rules and order, and a superior-subordinate relationship. Settled in the southern front, a subordinate...

In the moonlit night, the beautiful girls secretly whisper, "I love you, my cute one." Yes, they are young girl prostitutes known as "Dolls." Without knowing love or morals, they are taught the skills to please...

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

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"I thought we were friends." "Your Highness is from the royal family of Joseon, and I am only a soldier of the Japanese Empire." The precarious relationship between the two men, who loved their countries more...

Kentaro is a 26-year-old NEET. At the request of his sister Keiko, a freelance writer, he dives into his family history. His grandfather, Kyuzo Miyabe, was a fighter pilot in the Japanese imperial navy who...

The Temple of El Alamein is a compilation of short stories. • Seelöwe • Temple of El Alamein • Where Eagles Dare • Ardennes Forest • National Shame Manga • National Shame Manga 2 - G.H.Q • Red Death Part 1...

A collection of novelistic one-shots from Monden Akiko. With most stories set in post-war Japan, this collection touches upon topics of desire, war, and humanity.

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From Friendship Scans Lin Zuning was recently dumped by his girlfriend. Depressed and angry, he rode his motorcycle in the rain. Speeding as he went, he was met with an accident and broke his leg. He thought...

The true story of Sasaki Yuuji, a kamikaze pilot during World War II who was sent on nine suicide missions but came back alive every single time.

The Showa writer, Kyutaro Yamada was a medical student- Yamada, a young man who never went to the battlefield, continued to write about the state and problems of Japan at that time, sometimes sharply and...

A man meets up with his university tokusatsu circle after the passing of their leader.

Unrelated to the G.I. Joe franchise (from ebookjapan): 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, resulting in unjust discrimination against the Second-gen living in Hawaii. Joe, a second-generation Japanese...