is a Japanese writer. His father was Saburō Hirose, an architect.

Biography

He was born in Tokyo. After graduating from

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, he started writing by translating foreign medical studies. After the

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in 1979, Hirose wrote several works about the event in the 1980s. In his book, , he argues that several outdoor film sets in

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in the 1950s were contaminated as a result of nuclear testing. After the

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, Hirose published , in which he makes an argument about the risks of using nuclear energy to generate electricity. In addition to writing works criticising nuclear power, Hirose wrote several works on the

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as well as the

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. In 1986, he published , in which he focused on the

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and Morgan families. He also published a work focusing on the

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, , in 1991. On Ryūichi Hirokawa's work concerning

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, , Hirose claimed that it revealed several Jewish conspiracies, particularly among

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

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and

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. Concerning the

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, Hirose suggested that

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repeated the warnings given to him by

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about the health effects of the disaster. He later wrote several works in which he called for a phase-out of nuclear power. In 2012, a year since the accident, he gave a testimony for ''Beyond the Cloud'', a film by Keiko Courdy concerning the event.

Selected bibliography

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirose, Takashi 1943 births Living people Antisemitism in Japan Japanese left-wing activists Japanese anti–nuclear power activists Anti-Zionism in Japan Japanese conspiracy theorists Japanese male writers Japanese non-fiction writers Japanese translators Waseda University alumni Writers from Tokyo Male non-fiction writers

Biography

Selected bibliography

See also

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