From Bobbie Sellers@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, November 08, 2025 18:26:26
"Japan's Longest Day" a manga - November 7, 2025
Author:Kasutoshi Hando - original story
Artist: Yukinobu Hoshino - manga adaptaion
Genre: Historical covers the few days from the decision to surrender
and the
factions within the IMP which opposed surrender and the historical
examples
and philosophy with which they were misled.
This is a 452 page softcover book, from Tuttle Publishing. price seems
to be in the $20 neighborhood and has been made as a live action movie
and maybe an anime. One movie starred Toshiro Mifune and is
available on
remastered Blue-Ray. It is supposed to be 5 hours long and it may
have
taken longer for me to read this as at points I had to use a
magnifier to
read the dialogue. Plots were made but not executed by junior officers
to overthrow the government and take control of the Emperor who had
decided to end the War. This manga shows how these ideological
extremists fared. Tuttle has an advertisement in the rear of the book
for other works from overseas authors.