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14-800: Itō was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University . While working as a web designer, he wrote Genocidal Organ and submitted it to the Komatsu Sakyō Award contest in 2006. Although it did not receive the award, it was published by Hayakawa Publishing in 2007 and was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award . From 2001, he had to be hospitalized frequently for recurrent cancer. He died at age 34 on March 20, 2009. The video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and afterwords of

28-1061: A unicameral city council of 28 members. Kodaira contributes two members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tokyo 18th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education operates three public high schools. There is also one special education school for the handicapped. Kodaira has 19 public elementary school and eight public junior high schools. Public junior high schools: Public elementary schools: There are two private elementary schools, three private junior high schools, and three private high schools. [REDACTED] JR East – Musashino Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway - Seibu Shinjuku Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway - Seibu Tamako Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway - Seibu Kokubunji Line [REDACTED] Seibu Railway - Seibu Haijima Line Kodaira

42-522: Is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.5 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.6 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kodaira increased rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s and has continued to grow at a slower rate in the decades since. The area of present-day Kodaira

56-560: Is a private university in Kodaira , Western Tokyo , founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan . In October 1929, Teikoku Art School ( 帝国美術学校 , Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō , meaning "imperial art school") was founded. In December 1948, it became Musashino Art School ( 武蔵野美術学校 , Musashino Bijutsu Gakkō ) , and in April 1962, it

70-748: The Tokyo Metropolis , Japan . As of 1 April 2021 , the city had an estimated population of 195,207 in 93,654 households, and a population density of 9500 persons per km . The total area of the city was 20.51 square kilometres (7.92 sq mi). Kodaira is located in the Musashino Terrace near the geographic centre of Tokyo Metropolis. Tokyo Metropolis Kodaira has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kodaira

84-494: The Japanese SF novels. Toh Enjoe 's Self-Reference ENGINE was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007, along with Itoh's Genocidal Organ . Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews, and collaborated in a few works, until Itoh's death. At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012, Enjoe revealed

98-458: The last volume of the manga Aki Sora were dedicated to his memory. He had written a tie-in novel based on the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots . A poll by the yearly science-fiction guidebook SF ga Yomitai ranked Genocidal Organ as the number one domestic sci-fi novel of the decade. Hayakawa's S-F Magazine All-Time Best poll in 2014 ranked Harmony as the top of

112-408: The latter of which would then start to write fan fiction based on Kojima's Metal Gear series. After Itō's diagnosis with cancer, Kojima went against Konami standards and showed Itō footage of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty . Soon after Itō's recovery, and with the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots , Kojima and Itō collaborated on a novelization tie-in of the game. Itō

126-832: The plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel The Empire of Corpses . It was published in August 2012, and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho Award . Noitamina , a Fuji Television programming block devoted to anime, announced that they would be adapting three of Itoh's novels into animated feature films. All three films would be handled by different studios and directors. Genocidal Organ directed by Shuko Murase at Manglobe and Geno Studio , Harmony co-directed by Takashi Nakamura and Michael Arias at Studio 4°C and The Empire of Corpses directed by Ryotaro Makihara at Wit Studio . All three films also feature theme songs by Egoist , designs by illustrator redjuice and were to be released in 2015. Genocidal Organ

140-624: Was hospitalized again in February 2009, and Kojima once again released information regarding the next entry of the series, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker , to him. Itō, however, died before the release of Peace Walker . The end credits of Peace Walker features a dedication to Itō. Kojima's 2021 autobiographical book The Creative Gene also contains an essay dedicated to Itō which discusses Kojima's relationship with him. Musashino Art University Musashino Art University ( 武蔵野美術大学 , Musashino Bijutsu Daigaku ) or Musabi ( 武蔵美 )

154-616: Was part of ancient Musashi Province , but was a largely unpopulated area under the opening of the Tamagawa Aqueduct in the Edo period made agriculture possible. In the post- Meiji Restoration cadastral reform of July 22, 1878, the area became part of Kitatama District in Kanagawa Prefecture . The village of Kodaira was created on April 1, 1889 with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. Kitatama District

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168-464: Was postponed indefinitely after the closing of studio Manglobe. In 2017, the film was released after being finished by the newly formed Geno Studio . Itō befriended game designer Hideo Kojima at the Tokyo Game Show in 1998 shortly after the release of the original Metal Gear Solid . Kojima noted Itō as being one of the only people who understood the themes and morals in his video games,

182-418: Was renamed Musashino Art University. From its start, the university taught fine art and industrial design; it later added architecture, fashion, and other fields. MAU has exchange agreements with universities in other countries. It has a graduate school that awards master's degrees and doctorates. Kodaira, Tokyo Kodaira ( 小平市 , Kodaira-shi ) is a city located in the western portion of

196-401: Was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. The population of the area expanded after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake with the relocation of universities and housing areas from central Tokyo. Kodaira was elevated to town status in 1944 and to city status on October 1, 1962. Kodaira has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and

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