Arata Kanoh (

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

: 加納新太, ''Kanō Arata'') is a

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

from

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

. He graduated from the

Aichi Prefectural University is a public university located in the city of Nagakute, Aichi, Japan. There is a campus in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya which is for the nursing school, namely Aichi Prefectural College of Nursing & Health is a public university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japa ...

Works

Kanoh has written numerous novels throughout his career, many of which are book adaptations of Shinkai movies such as: * Your Name. Another Side:Earthbound () * The Garden of Words () * 5 Centimeters per Second: one more side () * The Place Promised in Our Early Days () He was also a screenplay assistant for the award-winning anime

Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commissi ...

References

Japanese novelists People from Aichi Prefecture Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Aichi Prefectural University alumni {{Japan-writer-stub