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Manga Creator Jinpachi Mori es Away
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Manga creator Jinpachi Mori ed away on November 21 at 7:24 a.m. due to Barrett's esophagus leading to esophageal cancer. He was 57.
Mori was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1958. After graduating from the Osamu Uoto. The manga centered on a family court judge who loved flowers, and it was adapted into a live-action television drama in 1993.
His other manga included released its single volume in 2001.
Mori challenged the strengthening of Japanese juvenile law, and encouraged social and community-based rehabilitation of delinquent juveniles. His last work is a book titled Kasai no Hito kara Kimi e no Yuigon: Sasebo Kōichi Dōkyūsei Satsugai Jiken to Shōnen-hō, wherein he outlines the history of juvenile law in Japan.
Mori revealed his esophageal cancer in July 2014.
Source: The Chugoku Shimbun
