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“Japan's surrender day begins with a US plane crash, framing Kinta's coming-of-age story in Chiba.”

Kantou Heiya

関東平野

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Seinen Historical Drama Slice of Life

45 chapters · 4 volumes · 1976 - 1978 · Manga

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Synopsis

Japan's surrender day begins with a US plane crash, framing Kinta's coming-of-age story in Chiba.

August 15 1945, a plane from the US Air Forces crashes in a field in the Chiba region. Thus begins, the day of Japan's capitulation, that great bildungsroman about Kinta, a young boy raised by his grandfather after his mother's death.