Tezuka Osamu was born in November 1928 in Osaka and died at the age of 60, in February 1989. One of the most outstanding examples of this is Tezuka Osamu, a manga writer, who is now known worldwide as the creator of Astro Boy. The US destruction thus contributed to creating some of the most important expressions of post-war Japanese culture. bombing campaign provided the vital life experience for remarkably creative expressions by some young survivors, who later became writers, artists, musicians or anti-war and peace activists. The great destruction and carnage from this intense indiscriminate bombing campaign imposed severe physical as well as psychological damage on Japan’s society and people. It is said that seventy percent of those killed were women and children. In the end, almost 100 cities and more than 300 towns and villages throughout Japan were targeted, causing more than 1 million casualties including 560,000 deaths. More than ninety percent of these bombs were dropped by B-29 bombers during the last five months of the Asia-Pacific War. By the time the war ended on 15 August 1945, the United States had dropped a total of 160,800 tons of conventional and incendiary bombs, as well as two atomic bombs. Air Force began aerial bombing of Japan’s main islands.
War and Peace in the Art of Tezuka Osamu: The humanism of his epic mangaįrom late November 1944, the U.S.
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