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Name: Machiko Hasegawa  
   
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Date of Birth: 30th January 1920
   
Place of Birth: Taku, Saga, Japan
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子 Hasegawa Machiko, January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992) 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. All of her comics were printed in Japan in digests of comic book form; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone.

Her comic strip was turned into a dramatic radio series in 1955 and a weekly animated series in 1969, which is still running in 2005.

Selected comics were translated into English, under the title The Wonderful World of Sazae-san.

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