Yukari Fujimoto, Professor of Japanese Studies, Meiji University; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
Moderated by Hikari Hori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required.
In this drawing released by Kazuto Tatsuta /KODANSHA, the main character in comic-artist Kazuto Tatsuta’s comic g1F: The Labor Diary Of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant” stands against the tsunami-crippled plant’s reactor shattered by melt-down. Tatsuta worked at the plant that suffered three meltdowns after the 2011 tsunami from June to December 2012 in part because he was struggling as a manga artist, but g1Fh is his biggest success yet. The opening episode won a newcomer award and was published last year in Morning, a weekly manga magazine with a circulation of 300,000. (AP Photo/Kazuto Tatsuta /KODANSHA)
