Kuni ga Moeru (国が燃える?, lit. The Country is Burning) is a Japanese manga series by Hiroshi Motomiya. It has been serialized by Shueisha in Weekly Young Jump. The series depicts a fictional Japanese bureaucrat in the Showa period (1926–1989).
[edit] Controversy
The manga became controversial in 2004 due to its depiction of the Nanjing Massacre. In particular, Motomiya drew criticism for a picture based on a famous photograph that allegedly shows a Japanese soldier posing for a souvenir shot with a woman he has raped. He altered the picture slightly, so that the soldier was shown to be wearing the official uniform of the Imperial Japanese Army On October 13, 2004, after pressure was exerted by Japanese civilians and politicians, Shueisha announced that it would suspend the series: "It has come to our attention that the photograph used is a falsification."[1] The series stopped for several weeks, though Motomiya and Shueisha later apologized for the incident and the series was restarted.
