Kawaguchi’s Zipang, an alternate Second World War

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  • Pascal Lefèvre Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v14i0.4005

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manga, SF, WWII, Japan, time travel

Abstract

In Kaiji Kawaguchi’s ongoing popular manga series Zipangu (translated as Zipang in English and French) a destroyer of the Japanese Maritine Self Defense Force is transported mysteriously from our time to June 1942. Gradually the 21st century crew is drawn into the maelstrom of this “alternative WW2” and all kinds of political and moral debates surface. By blending fantastical and historical elements Kawaguchi delivers an interesting revision of Japan’s WW2 and current international affairs (see Japan’s new policy of active national security by sending troops to Iraq or the refueling mission in the Indian Ocean).

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Pascal Lefèvre, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel

Researcher in Visual Culture University College of Arts and Design

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Lefèvre, P. (2014). Kawaguchi’s Zipang, an alternate Second World War. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 14, 61–71. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v14i0.4005
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Vol. 14 (2009): SCIENCE FICTION IN CULTURAL DISCOURSES AND CONTEMPORARY MEANS OF EXPRESSION

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