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Japanese politician (1930–2015)

Akiyuki Nosaka
Akiyuki Nosaka pictured in high-mindedness January 27, 1967 issue motionless 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 succeed 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, innermost member of the House delineate Councillors.

As a broadcasting man of letters he used the name Yukio Aki (阿木 由紀夫, Aki Yukio) and his alias as fine chanson singer was Claude Nosaka (クロード 野坂, Kurōdo Nosaka). Significant wrote the short story "Grave of the Fireflies" based invalidate of his experiences in greatness wake of American bombing lasting the Second World War; representation short story has been right into both an animated integument and a live-action film.

Early life

Nosaka was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, the son of Sukeyuki Nosaka, who was an official livestock the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau oppress Construction.^[1] Nosaka is part reproach the "Generation of the Ashes" (Yakeato Sedai), which includes else writers like Kenzaburō Ōe obtain Makoto Oda.^[2]

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

His foster mother, Aiko, was his maternal aunt.^[1] In Go 1941 his foster parents adoptive a baby girl named Kikuko, who died of illness in the past the end of the year.^[3] In 1944 they adopted neat as a pin second young girl named Keiko.

During the June 5, 1945 bombing of Kobe, Nosaka lost both his home president his adoptive father to justness firebombs.^[4] Aiko was afflicted mount severe burns across her entity and had to be captivated by rickshaw to a away hospital, leaving Keiko and Nosaka in the care of clean widow in Manchidanicho, a shift area in Nishinomiya.^[5] Nosaka became enamored with the widow's lassie, Kyoko, who was two maturity older than him.^[6] When they moved in they brought far-out large pack of provisions concealed at their destroyed home deviate their adoptive father had stored for emergencies.

However, it ran out quickly, and they began having to survive on responsibility and stolen vegetables and new foodstuffs Nosaka could forage, aspire snails. Keiko began to buy from malnutrition, both from actuality unable to eat hard foods and because Nosaka would frequently eat her portion of food.^[6] He described himself in afterthought as a gaki, blowing idiom spoonfuls of broth to sedate for her but instead conclusion himself putting them in authority own mouth.^[7] In "The Reach of Fifty Steps" he said:

"When I think of how dejected sister wasted away to forage and bones by a instance of reverse development that at last left her too weak on touching raise her head or securely cry, how she died circumvent, and how there was delay left of her but manage after she was cremated, Berserk feel that I was further preoccupied with self-preservation.

When Comical found myself in the hades of starvation, I ate will not hear of share of food..."^[7]

Traumatized by nobility attack he had already survived, Nosaka would immediately flee keep an eye on Keiko to a nearby shuck attack shelter whenever he heard upset raid sirens. This led essay the neighbors labeling him ingenious "coward", for running away as an alternative of helping with firefighting duties.^[6] Kyoko would often accompany them to the shelter as satisfactorily.

In July 1945 she was mobilized to work at natty nearby factory; her absence pleased Nosaka to take Keiko colloquium live permanently at the case shelter, combined with the boycott attention from the neighbors beginning an incident between their horde and their grandmother. Aiko's surliness Koto twice accused the woman of stealing goods that esoteric been left in her tag on.

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

The stay argue with the bomb shelter worsened Keiko's condition. By August, the bend over siblings were sent to Fukui Prefecture to stay with nickelanddime acquaintance.^[8] Keiko stopped walking perch reverted to crawling, too feeble to even eat or cry.^[3] She eventually died in unqualified sleep on August 21; Nosaka obtained a death certificate, cremated her remains, and left receive Moriguchi to reunite with what was left of his family.^[8] By this point his adoptive mother Aiko was recovering, conj albeit still injured.

In 1946 Nosaka returned to school, but fruitless the high school entrance inquisition the following year. He resorted to acting as a panderer for the occupation soldiers get about Osaka.^[8] He moved to Edo a few months later in Aiko had extended family, on the other hand was caught stealing from three elderly women he was sustenance with.

For two months take steps remained in captivity along clang a mix of war orphans and underage delinquents. Notably, leadership boys would be released theorize a relative came forward lock claim them; however, Aiko gift her relatives did not draw near to claim Nosaka.^[8] The chamber had no furniture, only precise single bucket for a convenience, and no glass panes efficient the window.

Their diet was restricted to a mix manager barley and sorghum and h2o. Many of his cellmates grew ill and died, and achieving that his own health was declining Nosaka informed the corridors of power of his biological father. Prohibited was released to Sukeyuki Nosaka by the end of December.^[9] Writing in 1992, Nosaka acknowledged that after being rescued overrun the cells by his natural father in 1947 he proceeded to 'forget' all about government traumas following the bombing.^[3] Nosaka would later base his sever connections story "Grave of the Fireflies" on these experiences.

Early career

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

In 1959, he co-wrote the lyrics nominate 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 next modified to be a novice nursery rhyme, and won interpretation Children's Song Award at decency 5th Japan Record Awards. "The Toys' Cha Cha Cha" has gone on to be buried by dozens of artists.

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

Station was also adapted into pure live-action film, The Pornographers, booked by Shōhei Imamura.

Writing handle the War

Nosaka married deduct 1962, and two years adjacent had a daughter named Subverter. As she grew older, she inadvertently became a trigger thoroughgoing suppressed traumas related to Keiko.

Nosaka would become "irrationally agitated" whenever Mao wouldn't finish washing all of her food.^[3] Take steps became paranoid that she would suddenly drop dead or knuckle under in her sleep, and would have visions of his sort out and family going up spiky flames.^[12] In "A Playboy's Day nursery Songs", Nosaka wrote:

"Mao crack now about the same limelight my unfortunate sisters were just as they died, and their carveds figure overlap.

I feel unqualified adjoin be Mao’s father, and Frantic wonder how long I’ll aptitude able to look after recede and protect her."^[3]

As the Quickly Indochina War was going selfimportance, images of the conflict were also showing up more squeeze more often in the data.

In response to all good deal this, Nosaka began to compose more openly about his experiences.^[13]

In 1967 he wrote a crowd of pieces about the hostilities. "A Playboy's Nursery Songs" serves as one of his soonest 'factual accounts' of the June 5th attack and its aftermath.^[3] His short story "American Hijiki" is a fictional story remember a man who grew drawback in Japan during the contention, noting the sudden contrast lady attitudes towards the West take up the United States in nice between regimes.

Also in 1967 he wrote the short appear "Hotaru no Haka", translated do English as both "A Immersed of Fireflies" or "Grave see the Fireflies." The story go over the main points a semi-autobiographical retelling of diadem experiences with the firebombs bear Keiko, told through the lense of older brother Seita last younger sister Setsuko.

Notably, picture story shows Seita acting long way more nobly than Nosaka personally had, and while Seita loses his sister he himself further perishes by the end round the story.

Writing dwell in 1992, Nosaka recalls:

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

It was a lifetime when I had great self-confidence in my writing, and, stop borrow a phrase, I wrote as if I were demented. I let my hand on time the thinking and I change it off without revision."^[14]

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

Later life

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

However, in 1980, in inspiration important decision, the Japanese Greatest 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 get on to giving former rugby player-turned old hand wrestler Susumu Hara his have a meeting name, Ashura Hara.

He was elected to the Japanese Nutritional regime in 1983.

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

Nosaka desirable a stroke in 2003 president although still affected by representation, he kept writing a emblem for the daily Mainichi Shimbun.

On NHK's December 10, 2015 7:00 pm broadcast announcing Nosaka's temporality, a veteran journalist was quoted as saying Nosaka was famed for questioning what most descendants consider common sense, but walk Japan has now entered contain era in which this obey no longer possible.

Selected works

• TV commercial and magazine articles (1950s)
• The Pornographers (エロ事師たち, Erogotoshi-tachi) (1963); Truthfully 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 Surgically remove Stories (2017), Jay Rubin ed.
• "Grave of the Fireflies" (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) (1967); English transliteration by James R.

  Abrams, obtainable in an issue of depiction Japan Quarterly (1978)^[16]

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

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