Cartoonist
Born in Tokyo in 1947. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Spanish.
After university, he started working at the McCann Ericsson Hakuhodo advertising agency. After leaving the company in 1977, he moved to France. Created instructional videos for films and language tutorials. He also teaches Japanese at the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures. In 1991 he published a collection of manga «Boo-oo!» in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, for which he received the Bungei Manga Award. In 2000, he won the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Political Caricature in Rouen, France. From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of the Davos Forum. Participant of the UN NGO / Cartooning for Peace since 2006.
Reference: BEC (the Big Encyclopedia of Caricature), 2020
