Vivian Wijaya
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Vivian Wijaya
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Born in 1978 in Tokyo, Japan, Dr. Vivian Wijaya is a certified surgeon turned manga artist. After finishing up her degree, she chose to follow her dream of being a manga artist and started enrolling in courses under Machiko Maeyama, who had just started a school Jakarta. After she had made her debut in a magazine in Indonesia, she then moved back to Tokyo and enrolled in the Nippon Designers School to study manga.

When she graduated, Vivian received the Nippon Designer School's highest academic award, as well as a full scholarship for postgraduate studies in the same institution. She apprenticed under Kenjiro Hata, the mangaka behind Hayate the Combat Butler. She made her publication debut in the Shounen Sunday magazine's official website with Kokkyounaki Gakuen.

Vivian currently has a monthly comic strip series published by Shinano Mainichi newspaper in Nagano, Japan. She also writes one shot manga for Shonen Sunday.