Missed It: Keiji Nakazawa And The Hibakusha Issue

Totally missed this piece that hit the wires about manga author Keiji Nakazawa of Barefoot Gen and his somewhat sprawling response to the nuclear crisis facing Japan following its major earthquake and tsunami last spring. I expected Nakazawa to strike a hopeful note about the country's ability to put itself back together after being rattled apart, but the specific focus on the ignorance the population has about radiation exposure and how this leads to a unique form of discrimination seemed fascinating to me. In the excerpt provided the author talks a bit about his own recent cancer treatments and his general worry about the disassociation some of his fellow citizens may have brought to the issue of controlling nuclear power.
 
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