Who is Susumu Higa?He is one of the most well-known Okinawan manga artists. His art depicts the lives of Okinawan people who lived through the Battle of Okinawa, particularly
the trauma of that experience and the compounding issues of the establishment of military bases for the very army which invaded and now occupied their homeland. The various emotions - madness, sadness and anger - which these dual experiences evoked in Okinawans are on full display in his work. He won the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival Award for his work 'Kajimugatai' in 2003.