Kuri-chan (Little Chestnut) was created by Nemoto Susumu in 1951 and became a long running comic strip in the Asahi Shimbun. The Nippon Times began carrying the strip the following May.

Photo From: Nippon Times, June 19, 1953. Cartoon From: Accessed 4 January 2007 on the World Wide Web at http://www.gakujoken.or.jp/adachi/kurichan.jpg.