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Tetsuya Chiba千葉徹弥alternative words: Chiba Tetsuya keywords: author , manga related topics: Shonen Magazine , Ashita no Joe related web sites: http://www.aruke.com/tetsuya/ explanation: Born on January 11, 1939 at Tokyo. After his birth, the whole family had immigrated to Manchuria but returned back to Japan after WWII. Precocious mangaka, he already began to publish at the age of 17. His most representative works are: Chikai no makyu (tale of a baseball pitcher) in 1961-62, Shidenkai no taka (tale of a pilot in WWII) in 1963-65 and Ashita no Joe (Rocky Joe in English title, tale of a boxer) in 1968-73. All the manga were published on Shonen magazine of Kodansha. | |