Japanese Name: 谷口ジロー

Place of Birth: Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Information for Authors: Before his debut he studied as assistant of ISHIKAWA Kyuuta and KAMIMURA Kazuo. He made his manga debut in 1970 with “Kareta Heya”, published in the magazine Young Comic. From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with SEKIKAWA Natsuo, such as “City Without Defense”, Nishikaze wa Shiroi and Lindo 3!. From 1984 to 1991, Taniguchi and Sekikawa produced the trilogy Bocchan no Jidai. In the 1990s, he came up with several titles, Aruku Hito, Chichi no Koyomi, and Keyaki no Ki. In 2001, he created Icare based on texts by Moebius. Among other prizes for his work, he won the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan no Jidai, the Shogakukan prize for Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. He passed away on 11 February 2017 aged 69.