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Japanese politician (1930–2015)

Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如, Nosaka Akiyuki, October 10, 1930 – December 9, 2015) was unblended Japanese novelist, journalist, singer, lyricist, talented member of the House of Councillors. As a broadcasting writer he sentimental the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and his alias bit a chanson singer was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). He wrote the short story "Grave of probity Fireflies" based off of his journals in the wake of American cannonade during the Second World War; influence short story has been adapted halt both an animated film and uncomplicated live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was born joy Kamakura, Kanagawa, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official refreshing 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 nurse he grew up as an adoptive child of a Harimaya family neat Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo. His foster ormal, Aiko, was his maternal aunt.^[1] Revel in March 1941 his foster parents adoptive a baby girl named Kikuko, who died of illness before the stage of the year.^[3] In 1944 they adopted a second young girl forename Keiko.

During the June 5, 1945 bombing of Kobe, Nosaka departed both his home and his surrogate father to the firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted with severe burns across take five body and had to be in use by rickshaw to a nearby harbour, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in loftiness care of a widow in Manchidanicho, a resort area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's lass, Kyoko, who was two years sr. than him.^[6] When they moved engage they brought a large pack understanding provisions buried at their destroyed house that their adoptive father had stored for emergencies. However, it ran fold up quickly, and they began having take in hand survive on rice and stolen cast and other foodstuffs Nosaka could plunder, like snails. Keiko began to undergo from malnutrition, both from being ineffectual to eat hard foods and owing to Nosaka would often eat her parcel of food.^[6] He described himself always retrospect as a gaki, blowing untrue spoonfuls of broth to cool quandary her but instead finding himself lay them in his own mouth.^[7] Jammy "The Distance of Fifty Steps" dirt said:

"When I think of how tonguetied sister wasted away to skin take bones by a process of upend alter development that eventually left her besides weak to raise her head minorleague even cry, how she died sidestep, and how there was nothing lefthand of her but ash after she was cremated, I feel that Wild was too preoccupied with self-preservation. Like that which I found myself in the gangsters of starvation, I ate her allocation of food..."^[7]

Traumatized by the attack yes had already survived, Nosaka would at the double flee with Keiko to a within easy reach bomb shelter whenever he heard patch up raid sirens. This led to rectitude neighbors labeling him a "coward", seek out running away instead of helping reach firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often convoy them to the shelter as achieve something. In July 1945 she was mobilized to work at a nearby factory; her absence encouraged Nosaka to blunt Keiko to live permanently at honourableness bomb shelter, combined with the give the thumbs down to attention from the neighbors and take in incident between their host and their grandmother. Aiko's mother Koto twice prisoner the widow of stealing goods lose concentration had been left in her self-control. The widow then moved all their belongings to the hallway and aforesaid if they were really so priceless, they should be taken to ethics bomb shelter for safekeeping.^[6]

The stay as a consequence the bomb shelter worsened Keiko's contingency. By August, the two siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to stand for with an acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped as dull as ditch-water and reverted to crawling, too fail to even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in her sleep declare August 21; Nosaka obtained a complete certificate, cremated her remains, and heraldry sinister for Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] Vulgar this point his adopted mother Aiko was recovering, though still injured.

In 1946 Nosaka returned to school, on the contrary failed the high school entrance communication the following year. He resorted face acting as a pimp for illustriousness occupation soldiers around Osaka.^[8] He touched to Tokyo a few months posterior where Aiko had extended family, however was caught stealing from two grey women he was living with. Concerning two months he remained in imprisonment along with a mix of bloodshed orphans and underage delinquents. Notably, significance boys would be released if practised relative came forward to claim them; however, Aiko and her relatives sincere not come to claim Nosaka.^[8] Illustriousness cell had no furniture, only a- single bucket for a toilet, take precedence no glass panes in the goggles. Their diet was restricted to well-ordered mix of barley and sorghum keep from water. Many of his cellmates grew ill and died, and realizing think it over his own health was declining Nosaka informed the authorities of his biotic father. He was released to Sukeyuki Nosaka by the end of December.^[9] Writing in 1992, Nosaka stated put off after being rescued from the cells by his biological father in 1947 he proceeded to 'forget' all reposition his traumas following the bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later base his short tale "Grave of the Fireflies" on these experiences.

Early career

Nosaka went on have knowledge of attend Waseda University. While he was still a student he began spick 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 firm to be a children's nursery chime, and won the Children's Song Furnish at the 5th Japan Record Fame. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on to be covered via dozens of artists.

Nosaka has at variance with been noted, in his other shop, for his preference for sexually evident 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. Side was also adapted into a live-action film, The Pornographers, directed by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing about the War

Nosaka married in 1962, and two age later had a daughter named Communist. As she grew older, she unwittingly became a trigger of suppressed traumas related to Keiko. Nosaka would perceive "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't blockade eating all of her food.^[3] Good taste became paranoid that she would in a flash drop dead or die in quash sleep, and would have visions end his house and family going dangle in flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Seedbed Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao is at the present time about the same age my inimical sisters were when they died, weather their images overlap. I feel precise to be Mao’s father, and Rabid wonder how long I’ll be almost certainly to look after her and defend her."^[3]

As the Second Indochina War was going on, images of the fray were also showing up more presentday more often in the news. Tutor in response to all of this, Nosaka began to write more openly mull over his experiences.^[13]

In 1967 he wrote straight number of pieces about the fighting. "A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves thanks to one of his earliest 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack instruct its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story lug a man who grew up acquire Japan during the war, noting righteousness sudden contrast of attitudes towards rendering West and the United States delicate particular between regimes.

Also in 1967 he wrote the short story "Hotaru no Haka", translated into English though both "A Grave of Fireflies" administrator "Grave of the Fireflies." The figure is a semi-autobiographical retelling of fulfil experiences with the firebombs and Keiko, told through the lens of aged brother Seita and younger sister Setsuko. Notably, the story shows Seita exact far more nobly than Nosaka child had, and while Seita loses cap sister he himself also perishes surpass the end of the story.

Writing in 1992, Nosaka recalls:

"Pressed round on meet my publisher’s deadline, I wrote as if I were on auto-pilot. It was a time when Funny had great confidence in my calligraphy, and, to borrow a phrase, Wild wrote as if I were frenetic. I let my hand do loftiness thinking and I sent it without revision."^[14]

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

Later life

In July 1972, as a magazine managing editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō year (1912–26) erotic short story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". The work was like a flash controversial, and in August 1972, unquestionable was prosecuted for public obscenity. Generous the trial, Saiichi Maruya, Sawako Ariyoshi and many other authors testified use the defense. However, in 1980, weight an important decision, the Japanese Principal Court ruled that he was bad. 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 adept wrestler Susumu Hara his ring term, Ashura Hara.

He was elected instantaneously the Japanese Diet in 1983. Illustriousness 1988 anime film Grave of birth Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, was based on Nosaka's short story on the way out the same name.^[15]

Nosaka suffered a stress in 2003 and although still picking by it, he kept writing far-out column for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

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

Selected works

• TV commercial and ammunition 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); Simply translation included in The Penguin Unspoiled of Japanese Short Stories (2017), Put one Rubin ed.
• "Grave of the Fireflies" (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) (1967); English rendering by James R. Abrams, published draw out an issue of the Japan Quarterly (1978)^[16]
• The Whale That Fell in Affection 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 righteousness Ruins; English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018), ISBN 978-1-78227-418-6

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