"By identifying the genre t ojisha manga and providing the foundation for its analysis, Yoshiko Okuyama offers a valuable and necessary intervention into our understanding of manga, autobiographical comics, and disability. Written with a combination of care, empathy, and rigorous scholarship, T ojisha Manga: Japan's Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health will resonate in comics studies and graphic medicine, exposing readers to fascinating, underappreciated works." (Andrew J. Kunka, Professor at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA) "Yoshiko Okuyama brings together insights gleaned from North American and Japanese disability studies, the Japanese disability rights movement, and interviews with manga artists to create an innovative and highly original study of what she calls " tojisha manga " - graphic memoirs written by people living with various mental disabilities and their families. Presented in an accessible, conversational tone, Tojisha Manga provides an exemplary, interdisciplinary foundation for future considerations of these important cultural artifacts and the women and men who produce them." (Michael Rembis, Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo, USA).