"Ueda, Masashi"@en . "Masashi Ueda (\u690D\u7530 \u307E\u3055\u3057, Ueda Masashi, born 1947 in Tokyo) is a comic book artist who wrote Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (Kobo-chan).Ueda began drawing comic book strips when he worked in his brother's cram school. Ueda began producing Furiten-kun, a comic book strip about a mahjong player, in 1979. In 1982 Ueda won the Bungeishunj\u016B Manga Award. During that year he began producing Kobo, the Li'l Rascal."@en . "1947Z"^^ . "Japanese manga artist" .