Table of Contents

Foreword 1. The Representation of Japanese History in Manga 2. Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu’s Phoenix 3. Reading Showa History through Manga: Astro Boy as the avatar of postwar Japanese culture 4. Representations of Gendered Violence in Manga: The Case of Enforced Military Prostitution 5.Maruo Suehiro’s ‘Planet of the Jap’: Revanchist Fantasy or War Critique? 6. Making History Herstory: Nelson’s Son and Siebold’s Daughter in Japanese Shōjo Manga 7. Heroes and Villains: Manchukuo in Yasuhiko Yoshikazu’s "Rainbow Trotsky" 8. Making History – Manga Between Kyara and Historiography 9. Postmodern Representations of the Pre-modern Edo Period 10. ‘LAND OF KAMI, LAND OF THE DEAD:’ Paligenesis and the Aesthetics of Religious Revisionism in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Neo-Gômanist Manifesto: On Yasukuni' 11. Hating Korea, Hating the Media – Manga Kenkanryû and the Graphical (Mis-) Representation of Japanese History in the Internet Age 12. Towards a Summation: How do manga represent history?

About the Author

Roman Rosenbaum specialises in postwar Japanese literary and popular cultural studies. He received his PhD in Japanese Literature at the University of Sydney. In 2008 he received the Inoue Yasushi Award for best refereed journal article on Japanese literature in Australia. In 2010, he will spend a year as a Research Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) to complete a monograph on the social activist Oda Makoto. He is the author of several papers on graphic novels and manga in the International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) and co-editor of Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation, Routledge 2010.