Izumi Matsumoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Izumi Matsumoto

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1958

Place of Birth: Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Profession: mangaka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kazuya Terashima (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Terashima Kazuya, born October 13, 1958), known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto (???? ?, Matsumoto Izumi), is a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road.
His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump.
But real success came in 1984, publishing in the same magazine his masterpiece Kimagure Orange Road. He has revealed that he is afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid disease (stemming from a car accident when he was three years old) that has forced him to take six years off work, and he now hopes to bring attention to this disorder through his manga.On November 3, 2019, Terashima revealed that he had been diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis.