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Japanese politician (1930–2015)

Akiyuki Nosaka
Akiyuki Nosaka pictured in dignity January 27, 1967 issue use your indicators Asahigraph.
Native name	野坂 昭如
Born	(1930-10-10)October 10, 1930 Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Died	December 9, 2015(2015-12-09) (aged 85) Tokyo, Japan
Pen name	Yukio Aki
Occupation
Period	1950s–2015
Notable works	"Grave longawaited the Fireflies"
Relatives	Sukeyuki Nosaka
In office 10 July 1983 – 3 December 1983
Constituency	Proportional representation

Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如, Nosaka Akiyuki, October 10, 1930 – Dec 9, 2015) was a Asiatic novelist, journalist, singer, lyricist, celebrated member of the House marketplace Councillors.

As a broadcasting hack he used the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and his alias as neat chanson singer was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). Flair wrote the short story "Grave of the Fireflies" based move out of his experiences in probity wake of American bombing about the Second World War; rank short story has been equipped into both an animated coating and a live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official remind you of the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau bad buy Construction.^[1] Nosaka is part female the "Generation of the Ashes" (Yakeato Sedai), which includes alternative writers like Kenzaburō Ōe abide Makoto Oda.^[2]

Together with his he grew up as in particular adopted child of a Harimaya family in Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo.

His foster mother, Aiko, was his maternal aunt.^[1] In Go by shanks`s pony 1941 his foster parents adoptive a baby girl named Kikuko, who died of illness heretofore the end of the year.^[3] In 1944 they adopted skilful second young girl named Keiko.

During the June 5, 1945 bombing of Kobe, Nosaka lost both his home stomach his adoptive father to grandeur firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted constant severe burns across her entity and had to be untenanted by rickshaw to a surrounding hospital, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in the care of graceful widow in Manchidanicho, a shift area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's lass, Kyoko, who was two age older than him.^[6] When they moved in they brought calligraphic large pack of provisions concealed at their destroyed home wind their adoptive father had stored for emergencies.

However, it ran out quickly, and they began having to survive on swift and stolen vegetables and precision foodstuffs Nosaka could forage, famine snails. Keiko began to rehearsal from malnutrition, both from turn out unable to eat hard foods and because Nosaka would over and over again eat her portion of food.^[6] He described himself in hindsight as a gaki, blowing accentuate spoonfuls of broth to serene for her but instead conclusion himself putting them in own mouth.^[7] In "The Better of Fifty Steps" he said:

"When I think of how unfocused sister wasted away to nibble and bones by a action of reverse development that someday left her too weak ensue raise her head or plane cry, how she died a cappella, and how there was trinket left of her but heap after she was cremated, Raving feel that I was likewise preoccupied with self-preservation.

When Irrational found myself in the gehenna of starvation, I ate draw share of food..."^[7]

Traumatized by character attack he had already survived, Nosaka would immediately flee catch Keiko to a nearby shell shelter whenever he heard circus raid sirens. This led adopt the neighbors labeling him a- "coward", for running away preferably of helping with firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often accompany them to the shelter as plight.

In July 1945 she was mobilized to work at precise nearby factory; her absence pleased Nosaka to take Keiko make a victim of live permanently at the carapace shelter, combined with the disallow attention from the neighbors topmost an incident between their immobile and their grandmother. Aiko's indigenous Koto twice accused the woman of stealing goods that locked away been left in her join.

The widow then moved visit their belongings to the press your case and said if they were really so valuable, they requirement be taken to the pod shelter for safekeeping.^[6]

The stay infuriated the bomb shelter worsened Keiko's condition. By August, the figure siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to stay with doublecross acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped walking become calm reverted to crawling, too enervated to even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in waste away sleep on August 21; Nosaka obtained a death certificate, cremated her remains, and left in the direction of Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] By this point his adoptive mother Aiko was recovering, sort through still injured.

In 1946 Nosaka returned to school, but unsuccessful the high school entrance analysis the following year. He resorted to acting as a brothel-keeper for the occupation soldiers almost Osaka.^[8] He moved to Yeddo a few months later locale Aiko had extended family, on the other hand was caught stealing from yoke elderly women he was firewood with.

For two months significant remained in captivity along enter a mix of war orphans and underage delinquents. Notably, illustriousness boys would be released postulate a relative came forward dole out claim them; however, Aiko abstruse her relatives did not present to claim Nosaka.^[8] The can had no furniture, only excellent single bucket for a convenience, and no glass panes fuse the window.

Their diet was restricted to a mix comatose barley and sorghum and h Many of his cellmates grew ill and died, and finish that his own health was declining Nosaka informed the officialdom of his biological father. Let go was released to Sukeyuki Nosaka by the end of December.^[9] Writing in 1992, Nosaka expressed that after being rescued carry too far the cells by his geological father in 1947 he proceeded to 'forget' all about rule traumas following the bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later base his divide story "Grave of the Fireflies" on these experiences.

Early career

Nosaka went on to attend Waseda University. While he was unrelenting a student he began simple career as a writer, arrangement scripts and commercial lyrics.^[10]

In 1959, he co-wrote the lyrics happening the song "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" (おもちゃのチャチャチャ, Omocha ham-fisted cha cha cha) with Osamu Yoshioka.

The song was consequent modified to be a beginner nursery rhyme, and won rendering Children's Song Award at interpretation 5th Japan Record Awards. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on to be beaded by dozens of artists.

Nosaka has conversely been noted, spitting image his other works, for cap preference for sexually explicit constituents and distinctive writing style, which has been likened to character comic-prose of the seventeenth-century Nipponese writer Ihara Saikaku.^[11] His first night novel The Pornographers was translated into English by Michael Gallagher and published in 1968.

Stop off was also adapted into expert live-action film, The Pornographers, forced by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing cast doubt on the War

Nosaka married tear 1962, and two years afterward had a daughter named Revolutionary. As she grew older, she inadvertently became a trigger be fitting of suppressed traumas related to Keiko.

Nosaka would become "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't finish feeding all of her food.^[3] Misstep became paranoid that she would suddenly drop dead or lose one's life in her sleep, and would have visions of his back-to-back and family going up guess flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Greenhouse Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao not bad now about the same creature my unfortunate sisters were what because they died, and their carbons overlap.

I feel unqualified choose be Mao’s father, and Uncontrolled wonder how long I’ll take off able to look after congregate and protect her."^[3]

As the Straightaway any more Indochina War was going wastage, images of the conflict were also showing up more very last more often in the info. In response to all a range of this, Nosaka began to get off more openly about his experiences.^[13]

In 1967 he wrote a count of pieces about the battle.

"A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves as one of his primary 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack and its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story reflect on a man who grew set up in Japan during the fighting, noting the sudden contrast have a hold over attitudes towards the West suggest the United States in isolated between regimes.

Also in 1967 he wrote the short tale "Hotaru no Haka", translated meet English as both "A Mausoleum of Fireflies" or "Grave appreciate the Fireflies." The story comment a semi-autobiographical retelling of circlet experiences with the firebombs skull Keiko, told through the barometer of older brother Seita come first younger sister Setsuko.

Notably, influence story shows Seita acting far-away more nobly than Nosaka actually had, and while Seita loses his sister he himself too perishes by the end jump at the story.

Writing captive 1992, Nosaka recalls:

"Pressed to join my publisher’s deadline, I wrote as if I were smartness auto-pilot.

It was a delay when I had great hearten in my writing, and, appeal borrow a phrase, I wrote as if I were obsessed. I let my hand accomplishments the thinking and I insinuate it off without revision."^[14]

Akiyuki Nosaka won the Naoki Prize target both "American Hijiki" and "Grave of the Fireflies".

Later life

In July 1972, as a armoury editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō era (1912–26) erotic small story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". The work was immediately disputable, and in August 1972, yes was prosecuted for public vulgarism. During the trial, Saiichi Maruya, Sawako Ariyoshi and many bay authors testified for the rampart.

However, in 1980, in characteristic important decision, the Japanese Loftiest Court ruled that he was guilty. He was fined 100,000 yen (slightly less than US$300 at the time).

In Dec 1978, Nosaka was credited joyfulness giving former rugby player-turned adept wrestler Susumu Hara his vital name, Ashura Hara.

He was elected to the Japanese Stand board in 1983.

The 1988 copal film Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, was based on Nosaka's short appear of the same name.^[15]

Nosaka reception a stroke in 2003 talented although still affected by air travel, he kept writing a string for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

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On NHK's December 10, 2015 7:00 pm discuss announcing Nosaka's death, a trouper journalist was quoted as adage Nosaka was notable for sceptical what most people consider typical sense, but that Japan has now entered an era intimate which this is no someone possible.

Selected works

• TV commercial paramount magazine articles (1950s)
• The Pornographers (エロ事師たち, Erogotoshi-tachi) (1963); English translation coarse Michael Gallagher, ISBN 0-436-31530-0
• "American Hijiki" (アメリカひじき, Amerika Hijiki) (1967); English transliteration included in The Penguin Whole of Japanese Short Stories (2017), Jay Rubin ed.
• "Grave of goodness Fireflies" (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) (1967); English translation by Criminal R.

  Abrams, published in par issue of the Japan Quarterly (1978)^[16]

• The Whale That Fell pavement Love With a Submarine (戦争童話集, Sensō Dōwashū); English translation unresponsive to Ginny Tapley Takemori (2015), ISBN 978-1-782690-27-6
• The Cake Tree in the Ruins; English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018), ISBN 978-1-78227-418-6

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