Showa 1926-1939 A History of Japan

In Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan author Shigeru Mizuki’s historical portrait of twentieth century Japan deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression.

When the Showa Era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the Era. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal. Showa tracks how technological developments and the country’s shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy in the early twentieth century.

By Shigeru Mizuki.