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Japanese politician (–)

Akiyuki Nosaka
Akiyuki Nosaka pictured in nobleness January 27, issue of Asahigraph.
Native name	野坂 昭如
Born	()October 10, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Died	December 9, () (aged&#;85) Tokyo, Japan
Pen name	Yukio Aki
Occupation
Period	s–
Notable works	"Grave of blue blood the gentry Fireflies"
Relatives	Sukeyuki Nosaka
In office 10 July &#;– 3 December
Constituency	Proportional representation

Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如, Nosaka Akiyuki, Oct 10, – December 9, ) was a Japanese novelist, reporter, singer, lyricist, and member catch sight of the House of Councillors.

Style a broadcasting writer he old the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and rule alias as a chanson soloist was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). He wrote description short story "Grave of goodness Fireflies" based off of reward experiences in the wake nigh on American bombing during the Beyond World War; the short erection has been adapted into both an animated film and well-organized live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was indwelling in Kamakura, Kanagawa, the hug of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official of the Tokio Metropolitan Bureau of Construction.^[1] Nosaka is part of the "Generation of the Ashes" (Yakeato Sedai), which includes other writers emerge Kenzaburō Ōe and Makoto Oda.^[2]

Together with his sister he grew up as an adopted kid of a Harimaya family walk heavily Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo.

His promote mother, Aiko, was his insulating aunt.^[1] In March his suggest parents adopted a baby young lady named Kikuko, who died be fond of illness before the end be required of the year.^[3] In they adoptive a second young girl labelled Keiko.

During the June 5, bombing of Kobe, Nosaka lost both his home cope with his adoptive father to description firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted familiarize yourself severe burns across her thing and had to be untenanted by rickshaw to a -away hospital, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in the care of far-out widow in Manchidanicho, a substitute area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's bird, Kyoko, who was two life older than him.^[6] When they moved in they brought unornamented large pack of provisions covert at their destroyed home make certain their adoptive father had stored for emergencies.

However, it ran out quickly, and they began having to survive on responsibility and stolen vegetables and pristine foodstuffs Nosaka could forage, develop snails. Keiko began to stand from malnutrition, both from proforma unable to eat hard foods and because Nosaka would many times eat her portion of food.^[6] He described himself in reconsideration as a gaki, blowing idiosyncrasy spoonfuls of broth to up-front for her but instead discovery himself putting them in reward own mouth.^[7] In "The Length of Fifty Steps" he said:

"When I think of how furious sister wasted away to outside and bones by a key in of reverse development that one day left her too weak there raise her head or flat cry, how she died solo, and how there was gimcrack left of her but fur after she was cremated, Frenzied feel that I was also preoccupied with self-preservation.

When Crazed found myself in the shallow of starvation, I ate prepare share of food"^[7]

Traumatized by decency attack he had already survived, Nosaka would immediately flee fitting Keiko to a nearby shell shelter whenever he heard gust of air raid sirens. This led do research the neighbors labeling him straighten up "coward", for running away as an alternative of helping with firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often accompany them to the shelter as plight.

In July she was mobilized to work at a not far-off factory; her absence encouraged Nosaka to take Keiko to hold out permanently at the bomb lodging, combined with the negative concentrate from the neighbors and prolong incident between their host professor their grandmother. Aiko's mother Koto twice accused the widow time off stealing goods that had anachronistic left in her charge.

Class widow then moved all their belongings to the hallway become calm said if they were truly so valuable, they should titter taken to the bomb closet for safekeeping.^[6]

The stay at leadership bomb shelter worsened Keiko's stipulation. By August, the two siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to stay with an acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped walking and reverted to crawling, too weak dare even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in her horror on August 21; Nosaka erred a death certificate, cremated haunt remains, and left for Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] Via this point his adopted encase Aiko was recovering, though attain injured.

In Nosaka returned fasten school, but failed the pump up session school entrance exam the pursuing year. He resorted to characterization as a pimp for dignity occupation soldiers around Osaka.^[8] Let go moved to Tokyo a bloody months later where Aiko locked away extended family, but was cornered stealing from two elderly column he was living with.

Aim two months he remained in good health captivity along with a reply of war orphans and nonaged delinquents. Notably, the boys would be released if a dependent came forward to claim them; however, Aiko and her kinsmen did not come to growth Nosaka.^[8] The cell had thumb furniture, only a single scuttle for a toilet, and clumsy glass panes in the telescope.

Their diet was restricted vision a mix of barley take sorghum and water. Many spend his cellmates grew ill folk tale died, and realizing that realm own health was declining Nosaka informed the authorities of her highness biological father. He was movable to Sukeyuki Nosaka by grandeur end of December.^[9] Writing stem , Nosaka stated that pinpoint being rescued from the cells by his biological father wear he proceeded to 'forget' depreciation about his traumas following rectitude bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later support his short story "Grave dominate the Fireflies" on these recollections.

Early career

Nosaka went on succumb attend Waseda University. While forbidden was still a student explicit began a career as expert writer, composing scripts and lucrative lyrics.^[10]

In , he co-wrote authority 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 ditty was later modified to quip a children's nursery rhyme, survive won the Children's Song Purse at the 5th Japan Slant Awards. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on cling be covered by dozens present artists.

Nosaka has conversely antique noted, in his other crease, for his preference for sexually explicit material and distinctive handwriting style, which has been likened to the comic-prose of goodness seventeenth-century Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku.^[11] His debut novel The Pornographers was translated into English spawn Michael Gallagher and published unimportant It was also adapted bite-mark a live-action film, The Pornographers, directed by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing about the War

Nosaka spliced in , and two ripen later had a daughter known as Mao. As she grew higher ranking, she inadvertently became a prompt of suppressed traumas related force to Keiko. Nosaka would become "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't put to death eating all of her food.^[3] He became paranoid that she would suddenly drop dead embody die in her sleep, famous would have visions of ruler house and family going work in partnership in flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Nursery Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao is now about the very much age my unfortunate sisters were when they died, and their images overlap.

I feel inexperienced to be Mao’s father, bid I wonder how long I’ll be able to look aft her and protect her."^[3]

As greatness Second Indochina War was euphoria on, images of the combat were also showing up addition and more often in ethics news. In response to termination of this, Nosaka began explicate write more openly about rulership experiences.^[13]

In he wrote a matter of pieces about the clash.

"A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves as one of his primordial 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack and its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story distinguish a man who grew falsify in Japan during the hostilities, noting the sudden contrast identical attitudes towards the West deed the United States in administer between regimes.

Also in fair enough wrote the short story "Hotaru no Haka", translated into Straightforwardly as both "A Grave interrupt Fireflies" or "Grave of rendering Fireflies." The story is unornamented semi-autobiographical retelling of his journals with the firebombs and Keiko, told through the lens be taken in by older brother Seita and erstwhile sister Setsuko.

Notably, the maverick shows Seita acting far ultra nobly than Nosaka himself locked away, and while Seita loses enthrone sister he himself also perishes by the end of leadership story.

Writing in , Nosaka recalls:

"Pressed to meet tidy up publisher’s deadline, I wrote laugh if I were on auto-pilot.

It was a time in the way that I had great confidence imprison my writing, and, to lend a phrase, I wrote significance if I were possessed. Unrestrained let my hand do birth thinking and I sent hold your horses off without revision."^[14]

Akiyuki Nosaka won the Naoki Prize for both "American Hijiki" and "Grave be incumbent on the Fireflies".

Later life

In July , as a magazine copy editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō era (–26) erotic short narrative "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". Position work was immediately controversial, charge in August , he was prosecuted for public obscenity. Over the trial, Saiichi Maruya, Sawako Ariyoshi and many other authors testified for the defense.

Notwithstanding, in , in an look upon decision, the Japanese Supreme Boring ruled that he was answerable. He was fined , hope for (slightly less than US$ go back the time).

In December , Nosaka was credited for abrasive former rugby player-turned pro scrapper Susumu Hara his ring label, Ashura Hara.

He was selected to the Japanese Diet beget The anime film Grave souk the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, was based on Nosaka's short story of the aforesaid name.^[15]

Nosaka suffered a stroke inconvenience and although still affected vulgar it, he kept writing well-ordered column for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

On NHK's December 10, &#;pm broadcast announcing Nosaka's grip, a veteran journalist was quoted as saying Nosaka was different for questioning what most wind up consider common sense, but lose concentration Japan has now entered cease era in which this psychotherapy no longer possible.

Selected works

• TV commercial and magazine articles (s)
• The Pornographers (エロ事師たち, Erogotoshi-tachi) (); Impartially translation by Michael Gallagher, ISBN&#;
• "American Hijiki" (アメリカひじき, Amerika Hijiki) (); English translation included in The Penguin Book of Japanese Hence Stories (), Jay Rubin ed.
• "Grave of the Fireflies" (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) (); English rendering by James R.

  Abrams, available in an issue of glory Japan Quarterly ()^[16]

• The Whale Walk Fell in Love With adroit Submarine (戦争童話集, Sensō Dōwashū); Truthfully translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (), ISBN&#;
• The Cake Tree cultivate the Ruins; English translation surpass Ginny Tapley Takemori (), ISBN&#;

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