Abstract
The research in this manuscript investigated the differences between the Initial Edition and First Edition of Nijinotori by Shun Medoruma. The result shows that there were many differences between the Initial Edition published in Novel Tripper 2004 (Winter, Asahi-Shimbunsha) and First Edition Nijinotori in 2007 (Kage-shobou).The amount of differences totalled 469 passages, and most of them were the deletion of kanas which is relative to the different readers of the Initial Edition and First Edition, or small corrections. However, there are two very important points that needs to be addressed; the addition of a scene that older sister Hitomi is raped by an American soldier, and the portrayal of resemblances among Hitomi, Mayu and the victim of girl assault in 1995. These can be reflected upon the rebuttal against the point that implicates Hitomi portrayed as ‘human-hearted' in a change of Medoruma's ideas, which was referred in book reviews of the Initial Edition. Namely, such a critic without much thought that gives all hopes to Hitomi who maintains her ‘humanity' is refused by the addition of Hitomi's rape scene.
