Ken Kitashiba

Ken Kitashiba is a Japanese police journalist, author and manga writer from Katsushika, Tokyo, and a former detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. A Waseda University graduate, he worked for a trading company before joining the police, where he was also assigned to public security, and later left the force to study criminal sociology at Waseda's graduate school. His manga scripts include Mr. Whitey (1984), drawn by Tetsuya Saruwatari, and the long-running Marugoshi Deka, drawn by Michio Watanabe.

• Mr. Whitey (1984)