Summary Of Hadashi No Gen

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The writer of this article is arguing that ‘because children are in their developmental stages, their opportunities to freely read books must be fully guaranteed’. He first introduces the background of the Matsue municipal board of education’s request to schools to restrict students’ access to the manga ‘Hadashi no Gen’ and its retraction of it. He then goes on to state that the reason for the retraction should ‘go beyond the problem of procedures’. Thereafter, he explains how the citizen who filed the petition for its limit did so on the grounds that ‘its historical perception…is erroneous’, and ‘many of the people who support the request to limit access are raising questions about the manga’s historical perception and its view of the emperor

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