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Zack Davisson

Biography

Zack Davisson

Zack Davisson  is a translator, writer, and scholar of Japanese folklore and ghosts. He is the author of the THE GHOST OF OYUKI and the upcoming YUREI: The Japanese Ghost  from Chin Music Press, the translator of Mizuki Shigeru’s Showa series and  translator and contributor to Kitaro for Drawn & Quarterly.

Zack Davisson

Books by Zack Davisson

Showa 1939–1944: A History of Japan
Written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki and translated by Zack Davisson - Graphic Novel, History, Nonfiction

SHOWA 1939 - 1944 is the second volume of Shigeru Mizuki's historical and autobiographical account of the long-running Showa Era. It dissects Japan's entry into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and on a personal level, shows the end of Mizuki's idyllic childhood in the countryside when he’s drafted and shipped off to the tiny island of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.