Shinta Chō (Japanese: 長新太, September 24, 1927 - June 25, 2005) was an award-winning Japanese children's author and illustrator.
[1][2] He won the Japan Picture Book Awards [ja] Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
Chō was born Shuji Suzuki in Tokyo in 1928.
He began illustrating cartoon strips in the late 1940s.
He also wrote children's books, including The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts (Japan 1978, USA 1994).