George Abe

Birth: May 17, 1937

Death: September 2, 2019

Age: 82

Gender: Male

Hometown: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Years Active: 1986 ~ 2019

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Naoya Abe, known by his pen name George Abe, was a Japanese author and former yakuza. Outside Japan, he is best known for writing the manga series Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin in collaboration with artist Masasumi Kakizaki. As a teenager, Abe became a member of the Ando-gumi yakuza family, and was later recruited by the Koganei-ikka.