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Hamtaro creator Ritsuko Kawai was born in Osaka, Japan. She received a design degree from Kyoto Saga University of Arts. After graduation, she set out to Tokyo to seek her fortune as a comicbook artist. Since 1997, Ms. Kawai's Hamtaro stories have been serialized in Shogaku Ni Nensei, a magazine for Japanese schoolchildren published by Shogakukan. The animation series based on her Hamtaro books has been on the air in Japan since 2000, and began broadcasting in English in the United States in July of 2002Kawai, Ritsuko is the author of 'Adventures of Hamtaro A Home for Hamtaro and Other Stories' with ISBN 9781569317822 and ISBN 1569317828.
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