Word: tatsumi
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...program has been a welcome change for Tatsumi Nakayama, who works at the elderly care home Michinoku-so in Aomori, a 4-hour train ride from Tokyo. Unlike companies in more urban areas, Michinoku-so hasn't yet had difficulty keeping a full staff, but they know that they could. "Applicants for our jobs are decreasing every year. What would happen after five years? It's very bleak," says Nakayama, a 25-year veteran of the industry. That's why the company decided to hire two Indonesia caregivers through the new national program. "I believe there are many things...
...Side UNCOVERED: Decades before the graphic novel became trendy, a few Japanese cartoonists were turning out gekiga (dramatic pictures), darkly realistic comic strips that appeared in lowbrow magazines in 1960s Japan. It was a prosperous time for the nation, but viewed through the gimlet eye of gekiga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi, industrialization brought not wealth but alienation and cultural confusion. Nearly 40 years after initial publication, Tatsumi's bizarre, tabloid-inspired manga remains relevant?and this fall, non-Japanese readers will be able to sample the best of it when Abandon the Old in Tokyo, a collection of Tatsumi's work...
...counterparts in their adolescent focus. Buja's Diary, which, like The Push Man, is also a collection of short, naturalistic stories (originally published between 1988 and 1993) may be the first U.S.-published manhwa that feels truly Korean both in setting and unique cultural concerns. Though O shares with Tatsumi an interest in telling tales of more ordinary lives, he does so with much greater empathy for his characters and their plights. Without resorting to easy resolutions, O cultivates a subtle streak of morality to many of these tales...
...Americans, Tatsumi's artwork will be as unexpected as his storytelling. It has nothing of the exaggerated manga style, instead embracing a naturalism that reflects the stories. The black and white brushwork has a loose quality to it, providing details of environment and character without being overly fussy. Tatsumi has a masterful talent for economizing, cramming as much depth of character, symbolism and drama into eight pages as many conventional manga only manage in 200 pages. That he often does this with practically no dialogue is a testament to his skills as a visual storyteller. Frequently the main character remains...
...spite of its printing drawbacks anyone with an interest in Asian or Korean culture - and anyone with an interest in fresh, humane comics storytelling - should seek out Seyeong O's Buja's Diary. Along with Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man, the two books reveal a side of Asian comix that could redefine the manga/manwha "genre" for most Americans by telling small, mature stories that are rich in complexity, humor and meaning in their unique way as any Western graphic literature...