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Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄, Shimao Toshio, April 18, 1917–November 12, 1986) was a Japanese novelist. He has been called a "writer's writer", which is used as both a compliment and criticism. [1] Biography. Shimao was born in Yokohama, but his family moved to Kobe when he was eight.
Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄 Shimao Toshio?, April 18, 1917–November 12, 1986) was a Japanese novelist. Shimao was born in Yokohama, graduated from Kyushu University, and in 1944 was sent to Japan's southern Amami Islands as an officer for a naval suicide attack (kamikaze) squadron in World War II.
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Jun 9, 2023 · Summary. As Shimao Toshio prepared to listen to the Shōwa Emperor's famous declaration of surrender at the end of World War II, he and the some 200 men who comprised the tokkōtai (special attack force) under his command on the island of Amami Ōshima had just completed final preparations for the suicide mission for which they had spent the ...
Books. “The Sting of Death” and Other Stories. Until a recent “boom,” Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has...
Sep 1, 1985 · Toshio Shimao (島尾 敏雄 Shimao Toshio?, April 18, 1917–November 12, 1986) was a Japanese novelist. Shimao was born in Yokohama, graduated from Kyushu University, and in 1944 was sent to Japan's southern Amami Islands as an officer for a naval suicide attack (kamikaze) squadron in World War II.
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Until a recent “boom,” Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutagawa or the Naoki Prize, and none of his works had previously appeared in English translation.
Topics. Shimao, Toshio, 1917-1986 -- Translations into English, Shimao, Toshio, 1917-1986, Manners and customs, Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Japan. Publisher. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Collection.
