STRUCK BY A BLACK RAIN

The hitman Jin only accepts assignments involving Americans and despises Western culture. During a job in Hiroshima, he beats up an American who spat on the ground in the Peace Park and saves a blind girl named Heiwa from an accident. Heiwa’s father, a disillusioned man suffering from radiation sickness, speaks of his financial struggles and the fact that the only asset he can leave his daughter is his cornea. Jin, showing him his own war scars, convinces him to accept his help. What wounds did the atomic bomb leave on the inhabitants of Hiroshima? Through this precious collection of nine short stories, translated outside of Japan for the first time, Keiji Nakazawa unleashes his cry against war and atomic weapons.