Kazuo Koike
Kikuchi was born in Chōshi, Japan on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, "Demon City Shinjuku", was published in 1982. While his first novels are typical novel prose, as he gained fame, he adapted a more terse writing style.