Akiko Higashimura(東村アキコHigashimura Akiko, born 1975) is a Japanese manga artist from Miyazaki, Japan. Higashimura debuted in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Weekly Morning. Higashimura later became more notable for her work on Kisekae Yuka-chan which debuted in YOU magazine. Recently she made a one-shot for the magazine Jump SQ. She has been nominated twice for the Manga Taishō: in 2008 for Himawari: Kenichi Legend and in 2009 for Mama ha Temparish.