06 August 2010

Our Alliance - A Lasting Partnership



Recently, the United States Armed Forces in Japan posted a cute manga highlighting 50 years of the American-Japanese post-war alliance. Titled "Watashi-tachi no Dōmei", or "Our Alliance", it shows cute representations of the USA (named Usa-kun) and Japan (named Arai Anzu) living together as friends and partners and teaches readers what the alliance stands for. You can read the first chapter for free on their website here. More chapters will be posted in the future.

For a propaganda piece, it's quite cute. But, it's obvious that the USFJ omit the negative press concerning American G.I. presence in Japan, such as mass protests by the Japanese about US military bases in Okinawa and a number of schoolgirl rapes being committed by servicemen.

You can download the English scanlation here, courtesy of /a/non scanlations.

じゃあね,
siggy 2010

Sources: 1, 2, 3 (Final source link is NSFW.)

"Watashi-tachi no Dōmei — Eizoku-teki Partnership" © 2010 U.S. Forces Japan.