Fjerde og siste bind i et større historisk verk om Japan før, under og etter 2. verdenskrig.
 
"Showa 1953-1989 concludes Shigeru Mizuki’s dazzling autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, a portrait both intimate and ranging of a defining epoch. The final volume picks up in the wake of Japan’s utter defeat in World War II, as a country reduced to rubble struggles to rise again. The Korean War brings new opportunities to the nation searching for an identity."