August 6, 1945 - a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima and ended the Sino-Japanese War. There are so many books, documents, archives reminder us the victims of the bombing, and as well the terrible scar of a war.
Though, I would like to mention comic book series called Barefoot Gen written by Keiji Nakazawa. The series describe the horrible bombing and the aftermath in a "pictorial" format. This series not only provides the historical event, most important the message that: not all the Japanese citizen is pro-war. For those anti-war Japanese were actually portaited as the "traitors" of the Rising Sun nation. Most libraries store this series at the Young Adult collection - in my opinion, the series should be also classified as graphic novels for adult readers.
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