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Kyōko Hayashi
was a Japanese writer associated with the Atomic Bomb Literature genre. Biography Hayashi was born in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki and spent the years from 1931 to 1945 with her family in Shanghai. She returned to Nagasaki in 1945 and enrolled in Nagasaki Girls' High School, where she was mobilized in the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory. She was working at the factory when the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, but left before graduation. She started to write in 1962. In 1967, her story ''Procession on a Cloudy Day'' (''Kumoribi no kōshin'') was published in ''Bungei Shuto''. She first drew wide attention in 1975 with an autobiographical story about the bombing, ''Ritual of Death'' (''Matsuri no ba''), which received that yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noma Literary Prize
The Noma Literary Prize (''Noma Bungei Shō'') was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (''Noma Hōkō Kai'') in accordance with the last wishes of Seiji Noma (1878–1938), founder and first president of the Kodansha publishing company. It is awarded by the Noma Cultural Foundation, the largest single shareholder in Kodansha. The Noma Literary Prize has been awarded annually to an outstanding new work published in Japan between October and the following September. The Noma Prize includes a commemorative plaque and a cash award of 3 million yen. It is one in a series of Noma Prizes. Sponsorship Prize (1941–1946) Noma Literary Prize (1941–present) An archive of past prize winners is maintained by Kodansha. Noma Literary New Face Prize (1979–present) An archive of past prize winners is maintained by Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akutagawa Prize Winners
Akutagawa (written: 芥川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese poet and writer *, Japanese composer and conductor, son of Akutagawa Ryunosuke *, Japanese painter * David Akutagawa (1937–2008), Japanese-Canadian martial artist See also * Akutagawa Prize, a literary award * Akutagawa (crater) {{surname, Akutagawa Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Women Novelists
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Hibakusha
' ( or ; or ; or ) is a word of Japanese origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the end of World War II. Definition The word is Japanese, originally written in kanji. While the term ( + + ) has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on 6 and 9 August 1945. Anti-nuclear movements and associations, among others of ', spread the term to designate any direct victim of nuclear disaster, including the ones of the nuclear plant in Fukushima. They, therefore, prefer the writing (replacing with the homophonous ) or . This definition tends to be adopted since 2011. The legal status of is allocated to certain people, mainly by the Japanese government. Official recognition The Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law defin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Deaths
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1930 Births
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Asahi Prize
The , established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large. The Asahi Prize was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of ''Asahi Shimbun''. It is recognized today as one of the most authoritative private awards. Prize winners Past prize winners include the following. Arts * Tsubouchi Shōyō, novelist, 1929 * Taikan Yokoyama, artist, 1933 * Jigoro Kano, founder of judo, 1935 * Shimazaki Toson, novelist, 1935 * Ryōhei Koiso, painter, 1939 * Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist, 1948 * NHK Symphony Orchestra, 1951 * Mashiho Chiri, 1954 * Eiji Yoshikawa, novelist, 1955 * Shikō Munakata, artist, 1964 * Jirō Osaragi, writer, 1964 * Akira Kurosawa, film director, 1965 * Haruko Sugimura, actress, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagasaki, Nagasaki
, officially , is the capital and the largest Cities of Japan, city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Founded by the Portuguese, the port of Portuguese_Nagasaki, Nagasaki became the sole Nanban trade, port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region have been recognized and included in the World Heritage Sites in Japan, UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Near the end of World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second city in the world to experience a nuclear attack. The city was rebuilt. , Nagasaki has an estimated population of 392,281, and a population density of 966 people per km2. The total area is . History Nagasaki as a Jesuit port of call The first recorded contact between Portuguese e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanizaki Prize
The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 ''Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō''), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen. Winners Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works. *1965 Kojima Nobuo for ''Embracing Family'' (''Hōyō kazoku'', 抱擁家族) *1966 Endō Shūsaku for ''Silence'' (''Chinmoku'', 沈黙) *1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for '' The Silent Cry'' (''Manen gannen no futtoboru'', 万延元年のフットボール) *1967 Abe Kobo for ''Friends'' (''Tomodachi'', 友達) *1968 (no prize awarded) *1969 Enchi Fumiko for ''Shu wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawabata Prize
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Early life Born into a well-established family in Osaka, Japan, Kawabata was orphaned by the time he was four, after which he lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once thereafter, in July 1909, when he was ten. She died when Kawabata was 11. Kawabata's grandmother died in September 1906, when he was seven, and his grandfather in May 1914, when he was fifteen. Having lost all close paternal relatives, Kawabata moved in with his mother's family, the Kurodas. However, in January 1916, he moved into a boarding house near the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) to which he had formerly commuted by train. After graduating in March 1917, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
