NABC Shop Manager's Diary — August 9, 2026 (Sun): A Day Off

I meant to write this in the diary earlier, but the other day manga artist Megumi Tsuji visited the shop. Actually, she had come about a month ago while I was away, so we couldn't meet then. 　Ms. Tsuji has just released Volume 1 of 'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' with Akita Shoten, and her previous visit seemed to have been partly for coverage related to that serialization. 　'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' is a story set after the end of the Pacific War: a young man repatriated from Manchuria to his hometown of Nagoya grows through food in Nagoya's black market (apparently behind the station). 　Ms. Tsuji, who was born in Mie Prefecture and is still very young, must find it really difficult to depict the war and the black market. She told me that the photographs in 'Nagoya Station West Time Trip' published by Fubaisha that we have in our shop were very helpful, so I asked, 'Shall we try to meet the book's author Hayashi-sensei? Also, people who study the Nakamura yūkaku would know a lot about research from that era, so why not join the yūkaku lecture we hold at the shop?' — and I more or less pushed her into it. 　Since yesterday we've been exchanging messages on social media, and we decided to hold a talk event for 'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' after the second Nakamura yūkaku lecture in November, inviting Hayashi-sensei to speak about the history of the station-west area and the black market. I think we might be able to make a flyer around the week after next (it's hard to get cover images right now because the publisher is inactive during the Obon holiday).