{"id":740,"date":"2011-12-10T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2011-12-10T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T16:38:24","slug":"international-comic-festival-recognizes-susumu-higa-from-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/newsflash\/international-comic-festival-recognizes-susumu-higa-from-okinawa","title":{"rendered":"International Comic Festival recognizes Susumu Higa from Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Article about this news on Okinawa Times in Japanese: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okinawatimes.co.jp\/article\/2011-12-08_27054\/\">http:\/\/www.okinawatimes.co.jp\/article\/2011-12-08_27054\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdangouleme.com\/bd\/Soldats%20de%20Sable\/392\/31\">Susumu Higa&#8217;s &#8220;Soldats de Sable (\u7802\u306e\u5263\uff09\u201dwas nominated in the Prix du meilleur album section of the 39th Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival held in France next year.<\/a> Although Higa shows some mixed feelings since this work was created over 10 years ago, he says he is honored to be recognized by the international community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The International Comics Festival is world renowned and considered prestigious in the world of cartooning. Soldats de Sable (Sword of Sand in English) tells a story about injustice of the Battle of Okinawa. First published in 1995, Higa hopes his work will convey messages about Okinawa to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Higa&#8217;s other works, &#8220;Mabui,&#8221; &#8220;Kajimunugatai,&#8221; &#8220;Akkusu,&#8221; and &#8220;Miyarabi Monogatari&#8221; also illustrate the hardships of Okinawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article about this news on Okinawa Times in Japanese: http:\/\/www.okinawatimes.co.jp\/article\/2011-12-08_27054\/ Susumu Higa&#8217;s &#8220;Soldats de Sable (\u7802\u306e\u5263\uff09\u201dwas nominated in the Prix du meilleur album section of the 39th Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival held in France next year. Although Higa shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/newsflash\/international-comic-festival-recognizes-susumu-higa-from-okinawa\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsflash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}