About Yukichi Amano
Lived 1933 – 2013 (aged 80). Yukichi Amano was a Japanese columnist, journalist, children's writer, critic and editing staff.
(27 April 1933 in Adachi, Tokyo – 20 October 2013 in Tokyo) was a Japanese columnist, founder and chief editor of monthly magazine Kokoku Hihyo.
Amano attended Meiji Gakuin University but did not graduate.
In 1970 he established Madra Publishing Ltd.
In 1979 he established Kokoku Hihyo, a magazine that was discontinued in 2009.
In 2002 he became Director (later Honorary Director) of the Shiki Memorial Museum.
Awards NHK Broadcasting Culture Award (2005)
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Columnist and editor (1933-2013)
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Yukichi Amano was born on 27 April 1933 in Tokyo.
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