Tokyo - Goro Hasegawa, the Japanese man credited with creating the Othello board game, has died. He was 83.

Hasegawa died after a long illness Monday in his home in Kashiwa, a Tokyo suburb, Marie Kimura of the Japan Othello Association said Thursday. She declined to specify the illness.

Hasegawa came up with the idea for the game as a child, and played it with milk-bottle caps when Japan was still poor and devastated by World War II. He proposed it to a manufacturer as an adult in 1972.

His father, an English literature expert, was behind the name of the game, which was taken from Shakespeare’s play.... Read More: VIN