, real name , was a Japanese writer and poet born in Mizuhashi (now part of

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, Japan. She was known for her works of fiction and nonfiction about people affected by

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. Henmi was the daughter of Gen'yoshi Kadokawa, founder of publisher Kadokawa Shoten and the older sister of

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. Henmi won the Nitta Jirō Culture Prize in 1984 for her 1983 book , about crew members of the Japanese battleship ''Yamato'' and their final voyage during

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. The book was later made into a 2005 movie under the same title. Henmi also won two nonfiction literary awards for her 1989 work about notes received 10 years after World War II by the family of a man who died in a Russian prison camp in Siberia. Kyodo News,
War fiction author Henmi dies at 72
, '' Japan Times'', September 23, 2011, p. 2. Henmi died on September 21, 2011, after collapsing in her home in a Tokyo suburb. She was 72 years old.

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1939 births 2011 deaths Waseda University alumni Japanese non-fiction writers People from Toyama Prefecture 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Writers from Toyama Prefecture Kadokawa Shoten {{Japan-writer-stub