Tokyo, Dec. 26 (Jiji Press)--Japanese screenwriter Makiko Uchidate, known for writing scripts for many television drama series in the country, died of acute left-side heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Dec. 17. She was 77. Uchidate was born in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in 1948. After graduating from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, she started her career as a screenwriter...