World War II ended on August 15, 1945. On that night, the city lights were turned on again. Tezuka Osamu looked at them. At that time he was sixteen years old. During the war, there was terrible bombing. He faced death again and again. “I'm alive!”he thought.
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Years later, he became a medical student. One day he met a patient. The patient was dying. His face was often twisted with pain. But at the point of death, the look of pain went away. His face even looked peaceful. Then an idea came to Tezuka. “Death isn't the opposite of life. It's a part of life.”
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Tezuka was moved by all of this. Later, in his works, Tezuka always tried to express the dignity of life.