Keiji Nakazawa (born 1939) is a Japanese manga artist and writer. He was born in Hiroshima, and was in the city when it was destroyed by a nuclear weapon in 1945. All of his family members who had not been evacuated died in the bombing, except for his mother. In 1961, Nakazawa moved to Tokyo to become a full-time cartoonist, and produced short pieces for manga anthologies such as "Shonen Gaho", "Shonen King", and "Bokura". Wikipedia
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