A volunteer pacifist organization, Project Gen, formed in Tokyo in 1976 to produce English translations.[4] Leonard Rifas' EduComics (together with World Color Press) published it that same year as Gen of Hiroshima, the "first full-length translation of a manga from Japanese into English to be published in the West."[4][5] It was unpopular, however, and the series was cancelled after two volumes.[6]