Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦 Inoue Takehiko?, born 12 January 1967 in Okuchi, Kagoshima) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for the basketball, basket-ball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japon and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball, basket-ball because they read the manga. This in turn helped make basketball, basket-ball populaire in Japon and across East Asia.
Inoue has been drawing manga mainly in male-oriented magazines. His name is ordered as Takehiko Inoue on his livres sold in North America...
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