Jessica Kwong
Japanese officials have resorted to using comics to disseminate a survival guide in the event North Korea leader Kim Jong Un decides again to fire missiles in their direction.
The four-page manga comic, titled In Case a Missile Flies Over, features animated characters ducking and shielding themselves with cushions.
“Cover your head,” advises one strip of the manga by Japanese artist Manabu Yamamoto published earlier this month.
Characters look startled as a North Korean missile launch, loudspeakers and sirens sound and a television anchor reports the news. On one page, a teacher instructs his students to crawl underneath their desks. On another, fishermen hide behind a ship’s wheelhouse and farmers take shelter in a field trench.
The government of Hokkaido, the country’s northernmost island—which has already seen two North Korean missiles fly over—distributed electronic copies of the manga to be printed out by schools, fishery associations and other groups. It is intended for all 5.5 million residents on the island.
“We decided to release the manga after hearing from our residents that the current manual is hard to understand,” Hokkaido official Kiyomi Tanabe said, according to a Agence France-Presse report on Thursday.
http://www.newsweek.com/how-survive-north-korea-missiles-according-japanese-manga-688954
