The cover page of the comic titled "What has happened to me — A testimony of a Uyghur woman", drawn by Japanese artist Tomomi Shimizu, is seen in this handout image obtained by Reuters on December 17, 2019. TOMOMI SHIMIZU@SWIM_SHU/Handout via Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese artist whose manga comics about a Uighur woman went viral wants to use the simple power of her work to raise awareness of the "daily suffering" endured by the Chinese mostly Muslim minority, she told Reuters.
With "What Has Happened to Me", a manga comic that has been translated into 10 languages - including Mandarin, Uighur and English - and viewed more than 330,000 times online, artist Tomomi Shimizu has seized on an issue that many Western countries see as evidence of Beijing's abuse of human rights.
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