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Kodansha‘S Morning journal, manga creator Kenshi Hirokaneand the editors apologized for the most recent chapter of Hirokane’s on Monday Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kosaku (Exside Director Kōsaku Shima) manga printed final Thursday within the forty sixth challenge of the journal. Within the chapter, relating to a brand new American base being in-built Nago, Okinawa, a personality notes that there are lots of individuals who protest in opposition to the American bases in Okinawa as part-time workers, and that he was as soon as employed to protest as nicely for a every day wage. The employees will revise the manga’s content material when it’s printed in a compiled quantity.

For this chapter, creator Hirokane and the editor accountable traveled to Okinawa for analysis, particularly into the tourism sector. Throughout their travels, they heard from a number of locals that there have been part-time jobs obtainable for individuals who opposed the development of latest U.S. bases. Though these had been unconfirmed rumors, the employees thought-about the knowledge definitive. Though the manga is fictional, the employees felt it was careless to have a personality say that many individuals, together with himself, had been employed as part-time employees to protest an American base.

Following the January 1960 U.S.-Japan Safety Treaty, a revision of a treaty signed after World Warfare II, U.S. navy bases had been allowed on Japanese soil, prompting protests from the U.S. bases.

Since 1983, Hirokane has depicted the rise of a Japanese director named Kōsaku Shima. With each change within the job title the primary character receives, the manga title additionally modifications. Observe-up contains Division Chief Kosaku Shima, Basic Supervisor Kosaku Shima, Government Director Kosaku Shima, Senmu Shima Kosaku, President Kōsaku Shima, Chairman Kosaku ShimaAnd Senior Advisor Kosaku Shima. The present ongoing manga is Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kosaku (Exterior Director Kōsaku Shima), which began in March 2022 Kodansha‘S Morning journal. Kodansha printed two bilingual volumes of Shacho Shima Kōsaku in 2010.

The collection has additionally impressed anime, spin-offs, video games and live-action variations. A brief live-action collection titled Kacho Shima Kōsaku no Tsubuyaki (Part Chief Kōsaku Shima’s Posts/Tweets) began on October 7.

Sources: Morning, Kyodo Information through Yahoo! Japan, Yaraon!