- Takashi Hashiguchi
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name = Takashi Hashiguchi
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caption = A self-portrait from anomake inYakitate!! Japan
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occupation = Manga artistnihongo|Takashi Hashiguchi|橋口 たかし|Hashiguchi Takashi|born
June 2 , 1967 inTokyo is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for hismanga series "Yakitate!! Japan ", for which he won theShogakukan Manga Award forshōnen in 2004.cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | title=小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19] Hashiguchi won a newcomer's award in 1987 (published in a magazine),Fact|date=July 2007 and "Combat Teacher" debuted the following year in the same magazine.Most of his manga deal with the realization of childhood dreams, such as making bread in "
Yakitate!! Japan " or becoming ayo-yo master in "Super Yo-Yo (Chousoku Spinner) ". He focuses mainly on unusual occupations or sports.He enjoys comedy as well, and took a brief interlude from drawing to try his luck as a comedian.
Works
His works include:
* "Combat Teacher " (1988)
* "Kinniku Kurabu " (1991)
* "Chie-Baachan No Chiebukuro " (1992)
* "Suto Ii Bashuko! Yon-Koma Gag Gaiden " (1993)
* "Caster Mairu Zo " (1995)
* "Windmill" (1997)
* "Super Yo-Yo (Chousoku Spinner) " (1997)
* "SCISSORS " (2000)
* "Yakitate!! Japan " (2002)
* "Saijō no Meii " (2008)References
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