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Ryuhei Tamura

Japanese manga artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ2758927 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ryūhei Tamura (Japanese: 田村 隆平, Hepburn: Tamura Ryūhei; born April 19, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for being the author and illustrator of the manga Beelzebub, which was first published as a one-shot in Weekly Shōnen Jump, 2008. It was then serialized in 2009. Tamura was formerly an assistant/student to Toshiaki Iwashiro, the author of Psyren, which was also serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump.

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The public source identifies “Ryuhei Tamura” as japanese manga artist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ryuhei, Tamura and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-04-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ryuhei, Tamura and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2758927. VIAF identifies the subject as 162583359. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ryuhei Tamura” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.