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Sawako Ariyoshi

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Ariyoshi was a prolific novelist and one of Japan's most famous female writers. Her works dramatize significant social issues, such as the suffering of the elderly, the effects of pollution on the environment, and the effects of social and political change on Japanese domestic life and values, and
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She was known for her advocacy of social issues, such as the elderly in Japanese society, and environmental issues. Several of her novels describe the relationships between mothers and their daughters. She also had a fascination with traditional Japanese arts, such as
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She is credited as a writer for multiple Japanese TV shows and movies, including adaptations of her books. In 1962, she married Jin Akira and had a daughter. They divorced in 1964. She died of acute heart failure on August 30, 1984.
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She published several short stories in various journals while still in Japan. She also was nominated for the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers and the
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is a historical novel dramatizing the roles of nineteenth-century Japanese women, and chronicles the life of the wife of a pioneer Japanese doctor,
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are based on her experiences in New York. She also joined a dance troupe, and traveled extensively to get material for her novels, such as
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Fellowship in 1959. Additionally, she received some Japanese literary awards, and even made an appearance on the popular Japanese TV show
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depicts the life of a working woman who is caring for her elderly, dying father-in-law. Among Ariyoshi's other novels is
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the sixth Fujin Kōron Readers’ Award, and the twentieth Art Selection Minister of Education Award, both for
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Osada, Kazuko (2007). "Nationalism, gender, and war brides: Reevaluating Ariyoshi Sawako's "Hishoku"".
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marked her as one of the finest postwar Japanese women writers, according to the Japan Times.
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In 1959, Ariyoshi moved to the United States and spent a year studying at
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University of Colorado at Boulder, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
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focus particularly on the lives of women. Her novel
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Wakayama City
Suginami-ku
Tokyo
Japan
Foundation degree
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Sarah Lawrence College
Novelist
Playwright
Director
Impresario
The River Ki
The Doctor's Wife (Ariyoshi novel)
The Twilight Years
Women's Literature Prize
Japanese Literature Grand Prix
Japanese
The Doctor's Wife
The River Ki
kabuki
bunraku
United States
Sarah Lawrence
Wakayama City
Japan
Indonesia
Tokyo Women's Christian University.
Akutagawa Prize
Naoki Prize

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