Popular Japanese baseball manga series "Dokaben" ended its 46-year history with its last episode published in a weekly comic magazine released Thursday.Many people in their 40s and 50s who have read the series by Shinji Mizushima as youngsters reminisced about how they learned about baseball from the characters of Dokaben, which first appeared in the Shonen Champion magazine published by Akita Shoten in 1972."I have enjoyed drawing my work every day, surrounded by the characters," said 79-year-old Mizushima in a statement carried by the weekly magazine along with the timeline of the series.…READ FULL ARTICLE
