{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-23T21:20:18.571Z","story":{"id":"r_1004db7337ac4a6bb823e742","slug":"ring-author-koji-suzuki-dies-at-68","url":"https://yomimono.id/ring-author-koji-suzuki-dies-at-68","headline":"Ring Author Koji Suzuki Dies at 68","summary":"Koji Suzuki, the novelist who created the Ring horror franchise and helped launch the J-horror boom in the west, died in a Tokyo hospital on Friday. He was 68. His 1991 novel Ring spawned films, manga, and spinoffs, and his other works include Dark Water, Spiral, and Loop.","why_it_matters":"Suzuki's Ring novel defined a generation of horror storytelling and directly shaped the international J-horror wave that brought Japanese genre cinema to global audiences.","published_at":"2026-05-19T20:46:52.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["Anime News Network"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime News Network","title":"Ring Author Koji Suzuki Dies at 68","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-05-09/ring-author-koji-suzuki-dies-at-68/.237204"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":["Ring","Dark Water","Spiral","Loop","Birthday","S","Tide"],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Koji Suzuki"],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false}}}