The Fujiko Fujio pair spilt in 1987 after more than two decades of success after it was found that Fujimoto has liver cancer and heart disease in 1986.
Fujiko A. Fujio, whose real name is Motoo Abiko, was part of the manga duo Fujiko Fujio, who created Doraemon, one of the biggest icons of Japan today, and worked closely with Osamu Tezuka in the 1960s and 1970s.
As Fujiko Fujio, they moved into the Tokiwa-so apartment complex after Tezuka offered them his old room.