George Akiyama

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George Akiyama (ジョージ秋山 born 1943-04-27 in Tochigi, Japan?), also known as Jōji Akiyama, is a Japanese manga artist. He is best-known for his long-running manga Haguregumo ("Wandering Clouds") first published in 1973 in Big Comic Original and collected in over 75 tankobon volumes as of 2007, and which was adapted as an anime movie by Toei in 1982.[1] Akiyama received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga for Haguregumo.[2]

In 2005, he published the controversial best-seller An Introduction to China: A Study of Our Bothersome Neighbors (マンガ中国入門 やっかいな隣人の研究 Manga Chūgoku Nyūmon: Yakkai na Rinjin no Kenkyū?), which was criticized for depicting Chinese people as obsessed with cannibalism and prostitution and denying the Rape of Nanking happened.[3]

[edit] See also

Manga Kenkanryu

[edit] References

  1. ^ Haguregumo (movie). Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
  2. ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
  3. ^ Norimitsu Onishi (2005-11-19). Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan. New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.

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