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Shino Sakuragi
is a List of Japanese women writers, Japanese writer. She has won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers, the Shimase Award for Love Stories, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. Early life Sakuragi was born in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan in 1965 to parents who owned and ran a local barbershop. After graduating from high school she worked as an official court typist until she got married at the age of 24, then had her first child at age 27 before starting to write in her early 30s. Career She won the 2002 All Yomimono Prize for New Writers for her short story , but her first book, a short story collection titled ', did not appear in print until 2007. In 2010 her book ' was published by Shinchosha, which also published ' the next year. ''Loveless'' won the 19th Shimase Award for Love Stories in 2012 and was nominated for the 146th Naoki Prize, but the prize went to Rin Hamuro. ''Garasu no ashi'' was later adapted into a Wowow television drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kushiro, Hokkaido
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kushiro Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. It serves as the subprefecture's capital and it is the most populated city in the eastern part of the island. Geography Mountains * Mount Oakan * Mount Meakan * Mount Akan-Fuji Rivers * Kushiro River * Akan River * Shitakara River Lakes * Lake Akan * Lake Harutori * Lake Panketō * Lake Penketō * Lake Shunkushitakara National Parks * Kushiro-shitsugen National Park * Akan National Park Climate Kushiro has a humid continental climate (''Dfb'') but its winter temperatures are less severe than those of inland East Asia at the same latitude. Its port is the most reliably ice-free throughout winter in all of Hokkaido, due to the lack of indentation in the coastline and absence of large inflows of cold fresh water nearby. It is also markedly sunnier than the extremely gloomy Kuril Islands to its north, being sheltered by Hokkaido's mountains from the heavy snowfalls produced on the Sea of Japan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
