Keiji NakazawaKeiji Nakazawa.

Keiji Nakazawa (中沢 啓治, Nakazawa Keiji; March 14, 1939, December 19, 2012) was a Japanese manga artist and writer. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical series Barefoot Gen, a landmark work depicting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. A hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) himself, Nakazawa was in Hiroshima during the bombing in August 1945 and lost most of his family.