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Born in Higashinaruse, Akita, a village in the Touhoku region of Japan. He was very interested in drawing coming of age-related themes and, in the 1960s, started publishing small comics in several newspapers and magazines. His first manga was [Shitamachi Benkei](https://anilist.co/manga/198132), published in 1971, but his breakthrough came in 1984 when he published the popular manga [Silver Fang](https://anilist.co/manga/34945), a story following a young Akita puppy, who goes in search of other dogs to fight the bear haunting his hometown. He got the idea in 1980, after reading an article about domestic dogs that ran away from their owners and lived as wild dogs in the mountains. The pure idea fascinated him, which eventually led him to create the aforementioned manga. In 1987, the series won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen manga. (Source: Wikipedia)
