Photography: SATO FOTO (SATO Noriyuki) Currently Japanese comics are very popular in the world. Some of the characters you might be familiar with are: Pokemon, Pikachu, and Dragonball. This tiny apartment building was the heart of these creations. The ten Japanese comic writers that used to live in this small apartment in the 1950s were the pioneers in the Japanese Comic Industry. Each writer became important in the Japanese comic culture and are still great names in our country: especially Osamu Tezuka, Fujio Akatsuka, Fujio Fujiko, Eiko Mizuno and Syoutarou Ishinomori.