Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan Vol. 2 (Showa: A History of Japan) By Shigeru Mizuki

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A MASTER CARTOONIST AND WAR VET DETAILS JAPAN’S INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR IIShowa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s autobiographical and historical account of Showa era Japan. This volume covers the final moments of the lead-up to World War Two and the first few years of the Pacific War; it is a chilling reminder of the harshness of life in Japan during this highly militarized epoch.In Showa 1939-1944, Mizuki writes affectingly about the impact on the Japanese populace of world-changing moments including the devastating Second Sino-Japanese War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the first half of the Pacific War. On a personal level, these years mark a dramatic transformation in Mizuki’s life, too – his idyllic childhood in the countryside comes to a definitive end when he’s drafted into the army and shipped off to the tiny island of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. His life becomes a constant struggle for survival, not only against the constant Allied attacks but because he must face the harsh discipline of the Japanese army officers. During his time in Rabaul, Mizuki comes to understand the misery and beauty of the island itself—a place that will permanently mark him and haunt him for the rest of his life.Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.

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Bottom line first:Showa; A History of Japan 1939-1944 picks up with author, artist Shigeru Mizuki’s combination autobiography and history of Japan’s Showa period. He is now an irresponsible youth with no faith in his future. His country has been at war for years and the effects of what he had called the “American Depression” and the needs of the Japanese Army has left his country a place where some enjoy the flapper years and most struggle to eat. Japan’s war combines with the world’s war and Mizuki and his childhood friends become soldiers. This volume lacks depth or analysis. History is a sequence of facts with the occasional personal comment. Where the first volume had seemed creative and a chance to get a Japanese view of history; Volume II has the feel of a middle school slide show; pre-PowerPoint. I will finish the Showa books by my recommendation for you to follow lacks enthusiasm.By making himself the stand in for the Japanese Everyman and by making himself a sad sack soldier the reader gets no sense of why the Japanese soldier was feared or formidable. Soldiers are routinely beaten and rarely the beneficiary of good food or quarters. We get no sense of how the average soldier felt about wartime jingoism, the Bushido code or their duty to the Emperor.The pages continue to contain dramatic and thought provoking images but the text becomes a flow of factoids Mizuki’s stated goal had been to give Japanese youth a more balanced picture of Japan’s role in WWII. He makes it clear that Japanese militarism produced the fake policy that was the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. He repeats that the reality was an intention for Japan to dominate subject territories but fails to document why this dominance would have been worse than European colonialism. For example most of the world knows that the women of Japan’s subject nations could be forced to provide “comfort girls”, sexual slaves for the soldiers, but this is not made explicit in this volume.Mistreatment of soldiers taken prisoner is shrugged off as a lack of planning to deal with their numbers and a general lack of supplies for everyone. Perhaps so, and just as likely a whitewash.Mizuki’s brothers precede him into military service. They will emerge briefly. One we are told will become a war criminal, but the specifics of his crime are cloudy. As a soldier, Mizuki’s service seems to be limited to being on the receiving end of beatings, the occasional favor that might have kept him away from the war and fleeting mention of friends from his home village. None of this is constructed to tell a story or to explain history. When some of his friends die we are told they were good people but we have too little about them to share his loss.Showa 1933-1944 may serve as an add-on book for a serious student of WWII but it is too episodic and shallow to be more that a sampling of Japan’s WWII. I agree that the format of a Graphic Novel is a limiting factor. I also agree the artwork remain at a high caliber. Showa Vol II could have been better.

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