Part of the problem is dealt with immediately afterwards, Nakazawa showing the close connection between corrupt politicians and Yakuza gangsters. Writing the Truth begins with Gen and his friends actually successful on that score for once, but in recalling his childhood Keiji Nakazawa remembers that there was never a period of comfort, and if there was food on the table there was dire need of money for other reasons, in this case his mother’s health. Two years after the end of World War II just finding enough food is a daily preoccupation for many survivors of Hiroshima, yet police rigidly enforce laws prohibiting food smuggling to eke out meagre rations.
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