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Template:Nihongo, also known by the pen name Template:Nihongo, was a Japanese manga artist. She was associated with the Year 24 Group.
Biography
Sasaya was born on January 31, 1950, in Ashibetsu, Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, as the youngest in a family of four children. Despite the wishes of her father, who wanted his four children to become teachers, she chose to pursue a career as a manga artist.[1] At the age of 20, she began working in the manga magazine Ribon, where she became known for her horror stories with occult themes.[2] Sasaya became associated with the Year 24 Group, a number of female manga artists who emerged in the 1970s and are noted for their innovation of shōjo manga (girls' comics).[2]
In 1990, Sasaya won the Excellence Prize at the 19th Japan Cartoonists Association Award for her manga series Template:Nihongo, an autobiographical manga about her life with her husband.[3][4] In 1994, after reading Template:Nihongo, a book about child abuse by journalist Atsuko Shiina（椎名 篤子）, she adapted the book into the manga Template:Nihongo. The manga, which was serialized in the manga magazine You in 1996, is credited with influencing the adoption of new child abuse laws in Japan on May 24, 2000,[1] and it received the Avon Educational Award in 2004.[4]
In 1996, she changed her pen name to "Nanaeko Sasaya".[2] In 2017, she was a lecturer in the Faculty of Manga at Kyoto Seika University.[5]
Sasaya died on June 8, 2024, at the age of 74.[6]
References
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