@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007227,
 author = {NISHINO, Ryōta},
 journal = {Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {},
 note = {Renowned manga artist Mizuki Shigeru’s (1922–2015) multiple wartime memoirs and travelogues of his time in New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, comprise a historical literature that provides insights into both the constant features and the shifts in Mizuki’s perceptions. This article explores Mizuki’s repeated renditions of his journeys by charting his evolving attitudes of admiration, disillusionment, resolution, and closure. While he identified with the villagers’ carefree lifestyle as an antithesis to the workto- rule postwar Japanese work ethic, each visit made him more concerned about the decline in the idyllic qualities of New Britain Island. The deaths of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 and of ToPetro, Mizuki’s closest village friend, a few years later spurred introspection on his wartime memory and his attitude toward the villagers. Mizuki grew receptive toward the villagers’ past and present grievances and reevaluated his relationship with them. He intended his parting gestures to repay the moral debt he had incurred. However, he failed to ask himself what his journeys meant to ToPetro and the villagers. This article suggests that a consideration of Mizuki’s changing reflections of these relationships could form a sub-genre of war veterans’ travelogues of their former battle site visits. Their writings may be understood to echo the broader power dynamics of the relationship between Japan and Papua New Guinea from the wartime period through to the postwar era.},
 pages = {107--126},
 title = {Better Late than Never? Mizuki Shigeru’s Trans-War Reflections on Journeys to New Britain Island},
 volume = {32},
 year = {2019}
}