Oba Electroplating Factory (Yoshiharu Tsuge, 4)An alt manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal works Oba Electroplating Factory is a startlingly bleak but nonetheless captivating portrait of mid century Japan in its most unglamorous iteration. Glimpses of the artist reflecting upon his life, his work, and his contemporaries pepper the narrative landscape: a wife teases her husband about a former fling on a trip to the hot springs, a young cartoonist is

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the dominant story of the twentieth century is that of decolonization

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travelling the breadth of the land and exercising his acute powers of observation to document all that he saw

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a model ten years her junior—are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband

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