© Shiro Yadama, Iwasaki Shoten
The official web site of the writer Iwasaki Shoten introduced on Tuesday that the writer Shiro Yadama died on July 14 of outdated age. He was 80.
A non-public household funeral was held, in accordance with Yadama’s needs. The announcement mentioned that Yadama had been sick since this spring, however was nonetheless responding to texts/emails. In keeping with Yadama’s household, the writer had “lived his life to the fullest.”
Yadama launched the Her Tokidoki Buta novels (pictured proper) in 1980, and it has develop into a best-seller and long-selling e book that continues to be reprinted yearly. The novels impressed the 1988 movie titled Sincere, then partly Piggy. Discotheque Media launched the movie on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2018 in Japanese audio with English subtitles. The novels additionally impressed a separate tv anime adaptation in 1997 that ran on ABC household with an English dub underneath the title Tokyo Pig.
Supply: Iwasaki Shotenweb site through Otakomu
