, real name , is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 and illustrator

Illustrator

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, martial artist born 15 March 1933 in Saga

Saga, Saga

is the capital of Saga Prefecture, located on the island of Kyūshū, Japan.Saga was the capital of Saga Domain in the Edo period, and largest city of former Hizen Province....

, Saga Prefecture

Saga Prefecture

is located in the northwest part of the island of Kyūshū, Japan. It touches both the Sea of Japan and the Ariake Sea. The western part of the prefecture is a region famous for producing ceramics and porcelain, particularly the towns of Karatsu, Imari, and Arita...

, Japan

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. He graduated from Saga Prefectural Saga High School (now Saga Prefectural Saga West High School).

Hari is the fifth son of a the chief priest at Kōdenji, a family temple in the former Saga Domain

Saga Domain

Saga Domain was a han, or feudal domain, in Tokugawa period Japan. Largely contiguous with Hizen Province on Kyūshū, the domain was governed from Saga Castle in the capital city of Saga by the Nabeshima clan of tozama daimyō...

. He worked at a cotton

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 spinning company and as a bank employee before moving to Tokyo

Tokyo

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 in 1953 to work as a writer for a financial journal. Hari made his professional manga debut in 1956.

He holds a level of 7th dan

Dan (rank)

The ranking system is a Japanese mark of level, which is used in modern fine arts and martial arts. Originally invented in a Go school in the Edo period, this system was applied to martial arts by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo and later introduced to other East Asia countries.In the modern...

 in aikido

Aikido

is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...

, and he studied an offshoot of Shintō Musō-ryū

Shinto Muso-ryu

, most commonly known by its practice of jōdō, is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of jōjutsu, or the art of wielding the short staff . The technical purpose of the art is to learn how to defeat a swordsman in combat using the jō, with an emphasis on proper combative distance,...

 staff fighting called . He currently operates in Saga City a dojo

Dojo

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 devoted to the study of aikido and jōjutsu (staff fighting).

Hari creates the politician caricature

Caricature

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s for the Sankei Shimbun

Sankei Shimbun

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, as well as a weekly one panel manga for the Weekly Manga Times

Weekly Manga Times

is a Japanese weekly seinen manga magazine published by Houbunsha since November 1956. The publisher claims it was Japan's first weekly manga magazine, and the magazine is published every Friday. While its name resembles that of its sister magazine Manga Time, it does not publish yonkoma manga. The...

. He won the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award

Japan Cartoonists Association Award

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 for Excellence for his work . He also won the Bungeishunjū Manga Award

Bungeishunju Manga Award

The was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, yonkoma, one-panel, and satirical manga. The award was also given out for works considered the magnum opus of manga creators....

in 1998 for his political caricatures.