Japanese Manga Artist Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87
Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)--Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, best known for the "Ashita no Joe" series and the first manga artist to receive the Order of Culture, died of myelodysplastic syndrome at a Tokyo hospital Thursday. He was 87. Born in Tokyo in 1939, Chiba was taken by his family to the Korean Peninsula as an infant and then to Japanese-controlled Manchuria in present-day nort...
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