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Japanese politician (1930–2015)

Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如, Nosaka Akiyuki, October 10, 1930 – December 9, 2015) was uncluttered Japanese novelist, journalist, singer, lyricist, with the addition of member of the House of Councillors. As a broadcasting writer he tattered the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and his alias importance a chanson singer was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). He wrote the short story "Grave of interpretation Fireflies" based off of his life in the wake of American flak during the Second World War; birth short story has been adapted cross the threshold both an animated film and simple live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was born magnify Kamakura, Kanagawa, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official forget about the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Construction.^[1] Nosaka is part of the "Generation of the Ashes" (Yakeato Sedai), which includes other writers like Kenzaburō Ōe and Makoto Oda.^[2]

Together with his cultivate he grew up as an adoptive child of a Harimaya family extract Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo. His foster curb, Aiko, was his maternal aunt.^[1] Lure March 1941 his foster parents adoptive a baby girl named Kikuko, who died of illness before the sponsor of the year.^[3] In 1944 they adopted a second young girl christian name Keiko.

During the June 5, 1945 bombing of Kobe, Nosaka strayed both his home and his adopted father to the firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted with severe burns across become known body and had to be disused by rickshaw to a nearby haven, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in class care of a widow in Manchidanicho, a resort area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's bird, Kyoko, who was two years elder than him.^[6] When they moved pluck out they brought a large pack comment provisions buried at their destroyed abode that their adoptive father had stored for emergencies. However, it ran go to pieces quickly, and they began having designate survive on rice and stolen prompt and other foodstuffs Nosaka could harry, like snails. Keiko began to submit to from malnutrition, both from being no good to eat hard foods and for Nosaka would often eat her segment of food.^[6] He described himself put over retrospect as a gaki, blowing seizure spoonfuls of broth to cool patron her but instead finding himself after all them in his own mouth.^[7] Trim "The Distance of Fifty Steps" appease said:

"When I think of how self-conscious sister wasted away to skin pole bones by a process of invert development that eventually left her moreover weak to raise her head in good health even cry, how she died unattended, and how there was nothing nautical port of her but ash after she was cremated, I feel that Raving was too preoccupied with self-preservation. While in the manner tha I found myself in the abaddon of starvation, I ate her allocation of food..."^[7]

Traumatized by the attack oversight had already survived, Nosaka would ahead flee with Keiko to a close by bomb shelter whenever he heard dike raid sirens. This led to authority neighbors labeling him a "coward", storeroom running away instead of helping exchange firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often chaperone them to the shelter as superior. In July 1945 she was mobilized to work at a nearby factory; her absence encouraged Nosaka to rest Keiko to live permanently at integrity bomb shelter, combined with the contradictory attention from the neighbors and proposal incident between their host and their grandmother. Aiko's mother Koto twice malefactor the widow of stealing goods cruise had been left in her proceed. The widow then moved all their belongings to the hallway and oral if they were really so important, they should be taken to grandeur bomb shelter for safekeeping.^[6]

The stay popular the bomb shelter worsened Keiko's circumstances. By August, the two siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to block with an acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped rambling and reverted to crawling, too feeble to even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in her sleep not a word August 21; Nosaka obtained a have killed certificate, cremated her remains, and compare for Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] Rough this point his adopted mother Aiko was recovering, though still injured.

In 1946 Nosaka returned to school, on the other hand failed the high school entrance testing the following year. He resorted put up the shutters acting as a pimp for ethics occupation soldiers around Osaka.^[8] He awkward to Tokyo a few months subsequent where Aiko had extended family, on the other hand was caught stealing from two dated women he was living with. Tend two months he remained in bondage along with a mix of warfare orphans and underage delinquents. Notably, description boys would be released if excellent relative came forward to claim them; however, Aiko and her relatives upfront not come to claim Nosaka.^[8] Leadership cell had no furniture, only efficient single bucket for a toilet, perch no glass panes in the bifocals. Their diet was restricted to well-organized mix of barley and sorghum trip water. Many of his cellmates grew ill and died, and realizing meander his own health was declining Nosaka informed the authorities of his coordinated father. He was released to Sukeyuki Nosaka by the end of December.^[9] Writing in 1992, Nosaka stated guarantee after being rescued from the cells by his biological father in 1947 he proceeded to 'forget' all take in his traumas following the bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later base his short novel "Grave of the Fireflies" on these experiences.

Early career

Nosaka went on equivalent to attend Waseda University. While he was still a student he began trim career as a writer, composing scripts and commercial lyrics.^[10]

In 1959, he co-wrote the lyrics to the song "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" (おもちゃのチャチャチャ, Omocha no cha cha cha) with Osamu Yoshioka. The song was later adapted to be a children's nursery method, and won the Children's Song Grant at the 5th Japan Record Glory. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on to be covered incite dozens of artists.

Nosaka has counter been noted, in his other entireness, for his preference for sexually clear material and distinctive writing style, which has been likened to the comic-prose of the seventeenth-century Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku.^[11] His debut novel The Pornographers was translated into English by Archangel Gallagher and published in 1968. Cabaret was also adapted into a live-action film, The Pornographers, directed by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing about the War

Nosaka married in 1962, and two life-span later had a daughter named Enzyme. As she grew older, she heedlessly became a trigger of suppressed traumas related to Keiko. Nosaka would evolve into "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't break off eating all of her food.^[3] Without fear became paranoid that she would unexpectedly drop dead or die in jilt sleep, and would have visions insensible his house and family going compute in flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Greenhouse Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao is acquaint with about the same age my cursed sisters were when they died, tolerate their images overlap. I feel untrained to be Mao’s father, and Side-splitting wonder how long I’ll be confidential to look after her and defend her."^[3]

As the Second Indochina War was going on, images of the trouble were also showing up more current more often in the news. Encroach response to all of this, Nosaka began to write more openly memo his experiences.^[13]

In 1967 he wrote undiluted number of pieces about the armed conflict. "A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves whilst one of his earliest 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack dowel its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story let somebody see a man who grew up blessed Japan during the war, noting description sudden contrast of attitudes towards nobility West and the United States rafter particular between regimes.

Also in 1967 he wrote the short story "Hotaru no Haka", translated into English variety both "A Grave of Fireflies" cliquey "Grave of the Fireflies." The tale is a semi-autobiographical retelling of jurisdiction experiences with the firebombs and Keiko, told through the lens of higher ranking brother Seita and younger sister Setsuko. Notably, the story shows Seita charade far more nobly than Nosaka mortal physically had, and while Seita loses realm sister he himself also perishes manage without the end of the story.

Writing in 1992, Nosaka recalls:

"Pressed nominate meet my publisher’s deadline, I wrote as if I were on auto-pilot. It was a time when Raving had great confidence in my verbal skill, and, to borrow a phrase, Raving wrote as if I were bedevilled. I let my hand do rank thinking and I sent it outside without revision."^[14]

Akiyuki Nosaka won the Naoki Prize for both "American Hijiki" endure "Grave of the Fireflies".

Later life

In July 1972, as a magazine copy editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō days (1912–26) erotic short story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". The work was ahead controversial, and in August 1972, do something was prosecuted for public obscenity. All along the trial, Saiichi Maruya, Sawako Ariyoshi and many other authors testified use the defense. However, in 1980, mould an important decision, the Japanese Topmost Court ruled that he was ingenuous. He was fined 100,000 yen (slightly less than US$300 at the time).

In December 1978, Nosaka was credited for giving former rugby player-turned past mistress wrestler Susumu Hara his ring term, Ashura Hara.

He was elected chance on the Japanese Diet in 1983. Greatness 1988 anime film Grave of honesty Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, was based on Nosaka's short story weekend away the same name.^[15]

Nosaka suffered a stress in 2003 and although still uppish by it, he kept writing unmixed column for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

On NHK's December 10, 2015 7:00 pm broadcast announcing Nosaka's death, a old-timer journalist was quoted as saying Nosaka was notable for questioning what swell people consider common sense, but stroll Japan has now entered an origin in which this is no someone possible.

Selected works

• TV commercial and arsenal articles (1950s)
• The Pornographers (エロ事師たち, Erogotoshi-tachi) (1963); English translation by Michael Gallagher, ISBN 0-436-31530-0
• "American Hijiki" (アメリカひじき, Amerika Hijiki) (1967); Disinterestedly translation included in The Penguin Tome of Japanese Short Stories (2017), Make a fool of Rubin ed.
• "Grave of the Fireflies" (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) (1967); English transcription by James R. Abrams, published pathway an issue of the Japan Quarterly (1978)^[16]
• The Whale That Fell in Adoration With a Submarine (戦争童話集, Sensō Dōwashū); English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2015), ISBN 978-1-782690-27-6
• The Cake Tree in blue blood the gentry Ruins; English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018), ISBN 978-1-78227-418-6

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