Sazae-san, the Japanese comic strip created by Machiko Hasegawa was first published in Hasegawa’s local paper, the Fukunichi Shimbun on April 22, 1946.
When the Asahi Shimbun wished to have Hasegawa draw the comic strip for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyushu to Tokyo as well. The comic dealt with contemporary situations in Tokyo until Hasegawa retired and ended the comic on February 21, 1974.
Although the comic ran for twenty-eight years, the characters never aged: Sazae was always 27 years old, her husband 28, her father and mother were always 54 and 48, and Sazae’s siblings were around eleven and seven years of age, respectively. As one of Japan’s longest running and oldest comic strips and animations, the series is known to nearly every Japanese person, young and old.
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