Title: Okinawa Volume: Complete in one volume Mangaka: Susumu Higa Translator: Jocelyne Allen, Andrew Woodrow Butcher, Christopher Butcher US Publisher: Fantagraphics Age Relevance: High School & Up How Essential Is It?: Essential Curricular Connections?: History, Social Studies Reader’s Advisory Tags: World War II, Memoir, US Occupation of Okinawa, Memoir Anime: N/A Content Warnings: Violence, War Publisher Synopsis: This heartbreaking manga, by an award-winning […]
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