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Survivor of the nuclear attack of Hiroshima, Japan. He claims to have seen the Enola Gay flying far overhead, and was nearly blinded by the flash of the explosion, which he described as "like a million flash bulbs going off at once". He credits his survival with a brick wall collapsing on top of him during the blast.

He retired from manga in 2009, and decided to spend his remaining years in his hometown Hiroshima.

Nakazawa's work "Barefoot Gen" is a semi-autobiography, based on his own experiences as an atom bomb survivor.

He had planned to make a sequel to "Barefoot Gen", but health issues brought on by the nuclear bomb (cataracts, lung cancer) meant he had to abandon the idea.

Nakazawa was inspired to become a manga artist from reading Osamu Tezuka's manga "Shin Takarajima".

Nakazawa's wife Misayo acted as his assistant during his artist career.

He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2024.