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Retrospective Display of Osamu Tezuka at AIU Library

October 20, 2009

The Library at Akita International University is currently hosting an exhibition entitled “Japanese Comic Culture: Osamu Tezuka,” celebrating the Master’s Life, and commemorating his 80th birthday. The exhibition started on Thursday, October 8, and will show until Sunday, November 15, 2009, on the 1st floor of the Library.

Please read the handout below which is given to each visitor of the exhibition. The handout illustrates “What is manga?” and the biography of Osamu Tezuka, the creator of The Mighty Atom and the producer of over two million pages of manga.

Please also take a look at the "AIU Faculty Profile" in which Dr. Darren Ashmore talks about the "Manga Mania" course he teaches at AIU.

 



Japanese Comic Culture: Osamu Tezuka
Handout (PDF)


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