Some thoughts on 子ども太平洋戦争物語, a manga series commissioned by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1996-20210 in order to raise disaster awareness among elementary school students by way of reflecting on Japan's wartime experience of bombing available here: www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/...

Fascinating. I hope you will combine these as a blog post or some other form that can be bookmarked and shared.

Considered together, the emphasis is clearly on “today’s peace” as opposed to the hardship of the past. The story almost always ends with the characters emphasizing that air raids are a thing of the past and appreciating that they’re living in a peaceful world today where there’s no war. E.g.: