{
  "id": 16727292,
  "title": "Japanese Manga Artist Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/japanese-manga-artist-tetsuya-chiba-dies-at-87",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T07:18:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026102700555/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}