Chinatsu Nakayama is a Japanese

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, writer, and politician.

Biography

Nakayama was born in

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, Japan on July 13, 1948. She began acting on stage as a child in 1955, then her family moved to Tokyo with the encouragement of when Nakayama was 11 years old. She transitioned to television in 1968, hosting a television show called for eight years. She also appeared on other

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programs. Nakayama started writing and becoming politically active in 1970. She was elected to the National Diet in 1980, but lost her re-election campaign in 1986. After leaving the Diet, Nakayama began writing full-time and continued advocating for human rights and against war. Her eight-volume autobiography, was nominated for the

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. She was nominated for the Naoki Prize for two other works as well.

Selected bibliography

* , 1979

Selected filmography

* Cleopatra, 1979 * ''

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'', 1973 * '' Jarinko Chie'', 1981

References

1948 births People from Kumamoto Prefecture Japanese stage actors Japanese voice actors Members of the Diet of Japan 20th-century Japanese writers Living people {{Japan-writer-stub