Writer of well-known A-bomb comic book 'Barefoot Gen' dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2011 shows Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Hadashi no Gen" (Barefoot Gen), an iconic Japanese comic about the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing. Nakazawa died of lung cancer on Dec. 19 at a hospital in the western Japanese city, people close to him said Dec. 25, 2012. He was 73.

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