Astro Boy, Howl's Moving Castle Lyricist Shuntarō Tanigawa Dies at 92

Kyodo News reported on Tuesday that prolific writer Shuntarō Tanigawa has died of old age at 92.

The writer died on the November 13, and his close relatives held a private funeral led by his oldest son Kensaku as the chief mourner.

Shuntarō Tanigawa began writing poems in his teens, and published his first poetry collection, Nijū Oku Kōnen no Kodoku (Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude), when he was 20 in 1952.