Sudoku puzzle creator Maki Kaji dead at 69
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nypost.comannounced on Tuesday. He remained chief executive at Nikoli Co. until July.Kaji was born in 1951 in Sapporo and later competed at the National Sports Festival with his high school tennis club.
After two and half years studying at Keio University, he dropped out due to numerous class cancellations spurred by the 1970 protests against the Japan-US.
Security Treaty, according to his obituary in the Japanese news outlet Mainichi.Kaji established Japan’s first puzzle magazine, Puzzle Tsushin Nikoli, with pals in 1980.
His most legendary creation, Sudoku, followed in 1983.However, it wasn’t until 2004 that Sudoku would became a global sensation, after a fan from New Zealand pitched it to the British newspaper The Times, the Associated Press.
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