(Hiroshima, 1939 - Tokyo, 2012) was six years old when the atomic bomb exploded, and all his family died except his mother. In 1961, Nakazawa moved to Tokyo where he worked as a cartoonist and created his first short mangas. After his mother's death in 1966, he depicted the destruction and chaos of Hiroshima in his stories. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete (Struck by Black Rain), was the first of five mangas he made about the story of the Hiroshima survivors. The most famous of all these works is Barefoot Gen: A Hiroshima Story, a long series of nearly three thousand pages starring a boy who survives the atomic terror.
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