Breaking the mainstream mold: The birth of a local political cartoonist in post-3.11 Japan

This paper introduces the Disaster Picture-Diary political cartoons of Asakura Yūzō which appear in the Japanese regional newspaper Fukushima Minpō. After the so-called 3.11 disaster’s triple blow of earthquake, tsunami, and multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns in 2011, intense public and media intere...

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Main Author: Ronald Stewart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2015-07-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/102