Fukushima Devil Fish: Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga
November 29, 4:30pm - 6:15pmMānoa Campus, Hamilton Library room 301
This is a public talk by Dr. Ryan Holmberg. Dr. Holmberg is a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Tokyo, and an Academic Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture.
Description of the talk -
Critiques of nuclear energy in Japanese manga did not begin with the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns in 2011. One of the regulars of the legendary alternative manga monthly Garo in the magazine芒鈧劉s heyday of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Susumu Katsumata (1943-2007) has the curious distinction of having risen within the world of political cartooning and literary comics while studying toward a graduate degree in nuclear physics in Tokyo. In the late 70s, he began drawing frequent humor strips about the dangers of nuclear power and stories about the 芒鈧搉uclear gypsies芒鈧 who maintained Japan芒鈧劉s nuclear plants under oppressive work conditions. This talk will survey Katsumata芒鈧劉s work on the subject of nuclear power, which is the largest, most diverse, and most trenchant such oeuvre in Japanese visual art. It serves as a preview of two upcoming publications: a collection of Katsumata芒鈧劉s manga titled Fukushima Devil Fish (SISJAC and Breakdown Press) and No Nukes for Dinner: How One Japanese Cartoonist and His Country Learned to Distrust the Atom (publisher TBD). This talk is part of the Honolulu Museum of Art芒鈧劉s manga exhibition, 芒鈧揟he Disasters of Peace: Social Discontent in the Manga of Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu芒鈧 Nov. 30 to April 15.
Event Sponsor
Center for Japanese Studies, Mānoa Campus
More Information
(808) 956-2665, cjs@hawaii.edu
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Fukushima Devil Fish: Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library room 301
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