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Filmmaker Lusztig in Hiroshima

British-American nonfiction filmmaker Irene Lusztig (L) speaks after the screening of her film "Richland" at a movie theater in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on July 9, 2024.

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Writer Osaragi's draft of nonfiction piece discovered

TOKYO, Japan - The discovered original draft of one of the late author Jiro Osagiri's 1959 nonfiction work entitled "Panama Jiken," meaning the Panama Incident, with red-pen checks, is shown in this photo taken on June 15, 2014. The items including the draft discovered at the residence of Osaragi's editor were returned to his adopted daughter Masako Nojiri, who donated them to the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

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Writer Osaragi's draft of nonfiction piece discovered

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Nojiri (L), an adopted daughter of the late writer Jiro Osaragi, is seen reading an original draft of one of Osaragi's nonfiction pieces on June 24, 2014, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. The items discovered at the residence of Osaragi's editor include his draft of "Panama Jiken," meaning the Panama Incident, and his letters. The items were returned to Nojiri, who then donated them to the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

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Inose announces candidacy for Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose, a prizewinning nonfiction writer, holds a press conference at the metropolitan government hall in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012, in which he announced that he will run as an independent in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election set for Dec. 16.

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Inose announces candidacy for Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose, a prizewinning nonfiction writer, holds a press conference at the metropolitan government hall in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012, in which he announced that he will run as an independent in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election set for Dec. 16.

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Inose announces candidacy for Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose, a prizewinning nonfiction writer, holds a press conference at the metropolitan government hall in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012, in which he announced that he will run as an independent in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election set for Dec. 16.

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Writer, poet Hemmi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows writer and poet Jun Hemmi, who died at the age of 72 on Sept. 21, 2011, after collapsing at her home in suburban Tokyo. Hemmi wrote fiction and nonfiction stories about people affected by World War II, including the novel ''Otoko-tachi no Yamato'' (Men's Yamato). She is also known as a poet of 31-syllable ''tanka'' poems.

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Nonfiction writer Asakura dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1997 shows nonfiction writer Kyoji Asakura. Asakura, whose real name is Hiroshi Oshima, was found dead in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010. He was 67.

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Ex-abductee Hasuike wins nonfiction award

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated abductee Kaoru Hasuike (file photo) won an award Aug. 27, 2009, for a nonfiction work that features his experience of being abducted to North Korea and living in the reclusive country. Hasuike went missing along with his girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, in Niigata Prefecture in July 1978, and returned to Japan in October 2002 with Okudo, to whom he got married in North Korea, after Pyongyang admitted to past abductions of Japanese citizens.

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Nonfiction writer Kamisaka dies at 78

TOKYO, Japan - Fuyuko Kamisaka (file photo), an award-winning nonfiction writer and outspoken conservative critic, died on April 14. She was 78. She was known for her works on Japanese history during and after World War II, including ''Keishu Nazare-en'' on a facility in South Korea where aged Japanese widows of South Korean men reside.

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Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, known for her nonfiction work on the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, gives a press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2015, before attending the ceremony to receive the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Referring to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, Alexievich said she plans to visit Fukushima in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate to visit Fukushima in Spring 2016

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, known for her nonfiction work on the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, gives a press conference in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2015, before attending the ceremony to receive the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Referring to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, Alexievich said she plans to visit Fukushima in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 8, 2015. The 67-year-old Alexievich, known for her nonfiction works on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, became the 14th female Nobel laureate in literature, with the prize judges hailing her works as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Photo taken June 9, 2015, shows Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 8, 2015. The 67-year-old Alexievich, known for her nonfiction works on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, became the 14th female Nobel laureate in literature, with the prize judges hailing her works as "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Termination of nuclear power is last job: Oe

Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe (L) and nonfiction writer Satoshi Kamata attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on March 10, 2015, in Tokyo. Criticizing the government's policy to resume nuclear power plants, Oe said, "There is no other choice but to create a world without nuclear power generation. It will be my last job to continue appealing for this." Kamata urged the government to hear what displaced people have to say about the future course of society. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese writer Hosaka gives interview

Nonfiction writer Masayasu Hosaka speaks in an interview on Jan. 28, 2015. Referring to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming statement for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Hosaka said it should be consistent with the statements issued by prime minister Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th and by Junichiro Koizumi on the 60th anniversaries of the war's end. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veteran activists urge citizens to think, act for democracy

Nonfiction writer Shinobu Yoshioka (2nd from R) speaks at a symposium on grassroots civic campaigns at Keio University in Tokyo on July 19, 2015, with Koichi Takakusagi (L), Takemoto Takahashi (2nd from L) and Yukio Yamaguchi listening to him. Keio Prof. Takakusagai organized the symposium to hear the experiences of the other three about their involvement in the anti-Vietnam War protests and other civil movements. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-abductee Hasuike wins nonfiction award

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated abductee Kaoru Hasuike (file photo) won an award Aug. 27, 2009, for a nonfiction work that features his experience of being abducted to North Korea and living in the reclusive country. Hasuike went missing along with his girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, in Niigata Prefecture in July 1978, and returned to Japan in October 2002 with Okudo, to whom he got married in North Korea, after Pyongyang admitted to past abductions of Japanese citizens. (Kyodo)

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Nonfiction writer Kamisaka dies at 78

TOKYO, Japan - Fuyuko Kamisaka (file photo), an award-winning nonfiction writer and outspoken conservative critic, died on April 14. She was 78. She was known for her works on Japanese history during and after World War II, including ''Keishu Nazare-en'' on a facility in South Korea where aged Japanese widows of South Korean men reside. (Kyodo)

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Nonfiction writer Asakura dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1997 shows nonfiction writer Kyoji Asakura. Asakura, whose real name is Hiroshi Oshima, was found dead in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010. He was 67. (Kyodo)

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Writer, poet Hemmi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows writer and poet Jun Hemmi, who died at the age of 72 on Sept. 21, 2011, after collapsing at her home in suburban Tokyo. Hemmi wrote fiction and nonfiction stories about people affected by World War II, including the novel ''Otoko-tachi no Yamato'' (Men's Yamato). She is also known as a poet of 31-syllable ''tanka'' poems. (Kyodo)

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Japanese nonfiction writer Eidai Hayashi

Photo taken in Kitakyushu on Nov. 29, 2001, shows Japanese nonfiction writer Eidai Hayashi (1933-2017), known for his works on Koreans forcibly taken to Japan during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, including those at coal mines in the Chikuho area of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka, where he was from. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb book by Briton to be reprinted on Nagasaki anniversary

Isabelle Townsend speaks about her father's 1984 nonfiction book, depicting the pain and suffering of a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during an interview in Paris on July 9, 2018. The Japanese language edition of "The Postman of Nagasaki," authored by Peter Townsend, will be released in Japan on Aug. 9, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of the southwestern Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb book by Briton to be reprinted on Nagasaki anniversary

Undated photo shows the Japanese language edition of British author Peter Townsend's "The Postman of Nagasaki." The nonfiction work depicting the pain and suffering of a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city, released in English and French in 1984, will be published in Japan on Aug. 9, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo