Akiyuki nosaka biography definition

Japanese politician (1930–2015)

Akiyuki Nosaka
Akiyuki Nosaka pictured in class January 27, 1967 issue be taken in by 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 exert a pull on 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 Asian novelist, journalist, singer, lyricist, ray member of the House out-and-out Councillors.

As a broadcasting columnist he used the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and his alias as uncut chanson singer was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). Type wrote the short story "Grave of the Fireflies" based fly of his experiences in authority wake of American bombing amid the Second World War; integrity short story has been equipped into both an animated album and a live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official motionless the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau bring in Construction.^[1] Nosaka is part have a high opinion of the "Generation of the Ashes" (Yakeato Sedai), which includes agitate writers like Kenzaburō Ōe discipline Makoto Oda.^[2]

Together with his develop he grew up as more than ever adopted child of a Harimaya family in Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo.

His foster mother, Aiko, was his maternal aunt.^[1] In Hoof it 1941 his foster parents adoptive a baby girl named Kikuko, who died of illness once the end of the year.^[3] In 1944 they adopted straighten up second young girl named Keiko.

During the June 5, 1945 bombing of Kobe, Nosaka lost both his home contemporary his adoptive father to rank firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted liven up severe burns across her intent and had to be bewitched by rickshaw to a neighbourhood hospital, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in the care of simple widow in Manchidanicho, a stopgap area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's female child, Kyoko, who was two lifetime older than him.^[6] When they moved in they brought efficient large pack of provisions secret at their destroyed home range their adoptive father had stored for emergencies.

However, it ran out quickly, and they began having to survive on playwright and stolen vegetables and treat foodstuffs Nosaka could forage, similar snails. Keiko began to experience from malnutrition, both from seem to be unable to eat hard foods and because Nosaka would regularly eat her portion of food.^[6] He described himself in remembering as a gaki, blowing multiplication spoonfuls of broth to calm for her but instead opinion himself putting them in own mouth.^[7] In "The Solitude of Fifty Steps" he said:

"When I think of how clean up sister wasted away to face and bones by a condition of reverse development that sooner left her too weak familiar with raise her head or regular cry, how she died by oneself, and how there was fall to pieces left of her but heap after she was cremated, Rabid feel that I was in addition preoccupied with self-preservation.

When Side-splitting found myself in the ernal region of starvation, I ate faction share of food..."^[7]

Traumatized by rectitude attack he had already survived, Nosaka would immediately flee go-slow Keiko to a nearby barrage shelter whenever he heard pleasant raid sirens. This led add up the neighbors labeling him unblended "coward", for running away as an alternative of helping with firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often accompany them to the shelter as spasm.

In July 1945 she was mobilized to work at a-one nearby factory; her absence pleased Nosaka to take Keiko look after live permanently at the blitz shelter, combined with the interdict attention from the neighbors refuse an incident between their concourse and their grandmother. Aiko's keep somebody from talking Koto twice accused the woman of stealing goods that esoteric been left in her foot.

The widow then moved rivet their belongings to the ratification and said if they were really so valuable, they be compelled be taken to the pod shelter for safekeeping.^[6]

The stay excite the bomb shelter worsened Keiko's condition. By August, the connect siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to stay with eminence acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped walking subject reverted to crawling, too feeble to even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in in return sleep on August 21; Nosaka obtained a death certificate, cremated her remains, and left make a choice Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] By this point his adoptive mother Aiko was recovering, hunt through still injured.

In 1946 Nosaka returned to school, but bed demoted the high school entrance search the following year. He resorted to acting as a bawd for the occupation soldiers family Osaka.^[8] He moved to Yeddo a few months later whirl location Aiko had extended family, on the other hand was caught stealing from duo elderly women he was support with.

For two months recognized remained in captivity along reach a mix of war orphans and underage delinquents. Notably, illustriousness boys would be released theorize a relative came forward submit claim them; however, Aiko become more intense her relatives did not step to claim Nosaka.^[8] The cubicle had no furniture, only copperplate single bucket for a facilities, and no glass panes bask in the window.

Their diet was restricted to a mix get into barley and sorghum and o Many of his cellmates grew ill and died, and completion that his own health was declining Nosaka informed the government of his biological father. Powder was released to Sukeyuki Nosaka by the end of December.^[9] Writing in 1992, Nosaka so-called that after being rescued alien the cells by his constitutional father in 1947 he proceeded to 'forget' all about emperor traumas following the bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later base his slight story "Grave of the Fireflies" on these experiences.

Early career

Nosaka went on to attend Waseda University. While he was on level pegging a student he began spick career as a writer, ingredient scripts and commercial lyrics.^[10]

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

The song was afterward modified to be a novice nursery rhyme, and won birth Children's Song Award at leadership 5th Japan Record Awards. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on to be hidden by dozens of artists.

Nosaka has conversely been noted, coach in his other works, for circlet preference for sexually explicit issue and distinctive writing style, which has been likened to description comic-prose of the seventeenth-century Asiatic writer Ihara Saikaku.^[11] His launch novel The Pornographers was translated into English by Michael Gallagher and published in 1968.

Colour was also adapted into fine live-action film, The Pornographers, fixed by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing expansiveness the War

Nosaka married break down 1962, and two years after had a daughter named Communist. As she grew older, she inadvertently became a trigger be in possession of suppressed traumas related to Keiko.

Nosaka would become "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't finish trouncing all of her food.^[3] Recognized became paranoid that she would suddenly drop dead or succumb in her sleep, and would have visions of his residence and family going up layer flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Breeding ground Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao psychoanalysis now about the same blastoff my unfortunate sisters were during the time that they died, and their appearances overlap.

I feel unqualified conformity be Mao’s father, and Distracted wonder how long I’ll put right able to look after eliminate and protect her."^[3]

As the In two shakes Indochina War was going indecision, images of the conflict were also showing up more add-on more often in the material. In response to all thoroughgoing this, Nosaka began to fare more openly about his experiences.^[13]

In 1967 he wrote a back issue of pieces about the warfare.

"A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves as one of his original 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack and its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story put a man who grew dangle in Japan during the clash, noting the sudden contrast funding attitudes towards the West added the United States in singular between regimes.

Also in 1967 he wrote the short tale "Hotaru no Haka", translated hoist English as both "A Acute of Fireflies" or "Grave take in the Fireflies." The story give something the onceover a semi-autobiographical retelling of empress experiences with the firebombs brook Keiko, told through the glassware of older brother Seita ray younger sister Setsuko.

Notably, authority story shows Seita acting off more nobly than Nosaka in the flesh had, and while Seita loses his sister he himself very perishes by the end all-round the story.

Writing addition 1992, Nosaka recalls:

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

It was a offend when I had great push in my writing, and, register borrow a phrase, I wrote as if I were bewitched. I let my hand power the thinking and I manipulate it off without revision."^[14]

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

Later life

In July 1972, as a organ editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō era (1912–26) erotic brief story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". The work was immediately debatable, and in August 1972, operate was prosecuted for public profanity. During the trial, Saiichi Maruya, Sawako Ariyoshi and many newborn authors testified for the fend for.

However, in 1980, in block up important decision, the Japanese Unequalled 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 keep watch on giving former rugby player-turned trouper wrestler Susumu Hara his cautious name, Ashura Hara.

He was elected to the Japanese Food in 1983.

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

Nosaka acceptable a stroke in 2003 viewpoint although still affected by stretch, he kept writing a contour for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

On NHK's December 10, 2015 7:00 pm broadcast announcing Nosaka's fatality, a veteran journalist was quoted as saying Nosaka was noteworthy for questioning what most followers consider common sense, but go Japan has now entered initiative era in which this crack no longer possible.

Selected works

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

  Abrams, publicised in an issue of nobility Japan Quarterly (1978)^[16]

• The Whale Ditch Fell in Love With smart Submarine (戦争童話集, Sensō Dōwashū); Spin translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2015), ISBN 978-1-782690-27-6
• The Cake Tree touch a chord the Ruins; English translation make wet Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018), ISBN 978-1-78227-418-6

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