The End of War: Papa's Coming Home

The End of War: Papa’s Coming Home or as translated, “Papa’s Coming Back to You,” is one of those examples from the aftermath of war, in which the truths are often stranger than the fictions. It is a personal and poignant story of a Japanese soldier in China (Manchuria) at the end of World War II longing to get home to be with his children. It is a personally told and illustrated series of pictures and its format is kamishibai (literally ‘paper theater’) in which the story is illustrated on one side of the paper with the story narrative (and in this case an English translation circa 1949) written on the other.