is a

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and

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Early life

Sawako Agawa was born in Tokyo on 1 November 1953. Her father is the novelist

Hiroyuki Agawa (December 24, 1920 – August 3, 2015) was a Japanese people, Japanese author. He was known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays. Literary career Agawa was born in Hiroshima, Japan. As a high school ...

; and her elder brother

Naoyuki Agawa is a Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and author. He has been a professor of law at Keio University since 1999; Early life Naoyuki was born in Tokyo in 1951. He is the son of the novelist and historian Hiroyuki Agawa. His younger sister is t ...

is also a writer. Naoyuki is a former diplomat who, since 1999, has been a professor of law at

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

. After graduation from Toyo Eiwa junior high school and high school (private all-girls school,

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located in

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), Agawa graduated from

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

with the

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degree in

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Career

Agawa started her career in Japanese television, first as a reporter, then as a news reader. She appears on a variety of programs, including talk shows, quiz programs, and interview shows.

Filmography

Films

* ''

Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bōken is a 2014 Japanese romance film based on the novel by Hiromi Kawakami. It was directed by Nami Iguchi who also directed ''Hito no Sex o Warauna'' in 2008. The film was released on February 8, 2014. Cast * Yutaka Takenouchi as Yukihiko Nishino * ...

'' (2014), Sayuri Sasaki * ''Homestay'' (2022) * ''Egoist'' (2023)

Television

* ''

Toto Neechan is a Japanese television drama series and the 94th asadora on NHK. It premiered on April 4, 2016, and ended on October 1, 2016. The theme song is "Hanataba o Kimi ni" by Hikaru Utada. Plot Tsuneko is the eldest of three daughters of Takezō and ...

'' (2016), Shizuko Sawa * ''Rikuoh'' (2017), Akemi Masaoka * ''Anata no Soba de Ashita ga Warau'' (2021)

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