Norio Yamanoi (No-rio)
Chairman of the Japanese branch of the Federation of Cartoonist Association (FECO), Norio Yamanoi lives in Aomori, 700k north of Tokyo.
His Japanese name, Norio, translates as “Educated Hero” in Chinese, although the cartoonist uses the pronounciation and pen name NO-RIO in his cartoons. He discovered that with this pronounciation, his name also means “I don’t laugh” in Spanish.
In 1991 he won the Bunshun Manga Sho, the most prestigious cartoon award in Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1947, he left Japan in 1977 for Paris, where he made movies including one for UNESCO’s Arm Reduction Campaign. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Davos conference, hosted by an international coalition of NGOs which runs parallel to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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