While is not a best seller, especially by manga standards, the manga version of Hitler's most infamous writing, わが闘争 (waga tōsō, Mein Kampf) is selling pretty well – 45,000 have been sold so far. It is the best selling manga in the publishing company's "read it via manga" series, which includes an adaptation of Marx's Das Kapital.
Nazis and their imagery (Nazi chic) seem to show up with surprising frequency in Japan. I've seen swastikas (of a definitely non-Buddhist variety) on middle-schoolers' pencil cases. I've seen Nazi flags hanging casually in special sections of book stores. And I've seen cosplay nazi girls, as well as odd guys in German uniforms in the park. While I think it's safe to say that interest in Nazis is by no means the norm, it does not seem to be met with the shock that it would be in the Western world.
Nazis and their imagery (Nazi chic) seem to show up with surprising frequency in Japan. I've seen swastikas (of a definitely non-Buddhist variety) on middle-schoolers' pencil cases. I've seen Nazi flags hanging casually in special sections of book stores. And I've seen cosplay nazi girls, as well as odd guys in German uniforms in the park. While I think it's safe to say that interest in Nazis is by no means the norm, it does not seem to be met with the shock that it would be in the Western world.
