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Nanjing Massacre manga to be modified Publisher Shueisha Inc. said Nov. 11 that it will delete or modify parts of a comic depicting the Nanjing Massacre that were carried by its weekly manga edition, when it is published in book form, after assembly members complained that the slaughter never happened. "The lack of prudence in selecting and verifying the materials for the comic has caused misunderstanding among readers," the publisher and the comic's author, Hiroshi Motomiya, said in a statement printed in the latest edition of Weekly Young Jump. The 21 pages featuring "inappropriate scenes" will be deleted or modified. This decision comes after a group of 37 local assembly members complained that passages from Kuni ga Moeru ("The Country is Burning") printed in the magazine's Sept. 16 and 22 editions "distorted history" by describing Japanese soldiers massacring civilians in Nanjing in 1937. The lawmakers claim there was no massacre. Kuni ga Moeru, a cartoon serial carried in the weekly magazine since November 2002, is a fictional account of the life of a bureaucrat in the turbulent early part of the Showa Era (1926-1989). Shueisha, which has suspended the serial since October, said no date has been fixed for its resumption.
The Japan Times Weekly: Nov. 20, 2004 |
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