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, January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992, in Taku, Saga Prefecture) was one of the first female manga artists. She started her own comic strip, ''Sazae-san'', in 1946. It reached national circulation ''via'' the ''Asahi Shimbun'' in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974. She also created the comic strip ''Granny Mischief''. All of her comics were printed in Japan in digest comics; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone. ==Sazae-san== Sazae-san was a popular postwar comic strip depicting the life of Sazae-san, a fictional Japanese housewife. Her comic strip was turned into a dramatic radio series in 1955 and a weekly animated series in 1969, which is still running as of 2015. Selected comics were translated into English, under the title ''The Wonderful World of Sazae-san''. She received the People's Honor Award in 1992. Hasegawa died of heart failure on May 27, 1992, at the age of 72. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Machiko Hasegawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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