In a scene from Osamu Tezuka’s short manga titled “Nagai Ana,” the protagonist Moriyama is reprimanded by his son for hiding his heritage as an ethnic Korean. ((c) 2026 Tezuka Productions)
Yuichi Shiokawa, right, manager of the Shiokawa Shoten bookstore in Sendai’s Aoba Ward, stands by as a boy reads a copy of Weekly Shonen Jump on March 25, 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)