Asia Pacific Beloved Japanese artist who depicted horrors of war dies at 93 An award-winning Japanese manga artist, whose retellings of traditional ghost stories and depictions of the horrors of World War Two helped propel anime to global popularity, died on Monday at the age of 93. POSTED: 30 Nov 2015 16:31 Shigeru Mizuki, a giant of Japanese manga artists (L) and his wife Nunoe Mura pose for a p