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Tatsuzō Ishikawa
was a Japanese writer. He was the first winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Biography Born in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, Ishikawa was raised in several places, including Kyoto and Okayama Prefecture. Due to his father's job transfers and career changes, they moved to Narayama Honshinmachi Kamicho 35, Akita City in 1908 when he was two years old, then to Ōimachi, Ebara District, Tokyo Prefecture (now Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo) when he was seven years old in 1912, and later that September to Takahashi Town, Kamibō District, Okayama Prefecture (now Takahashi City). In 1914, when he was nine, he lost his mother and was sent to live with his uncle, Rokurō Ishikawa, in Tokyo. However, in 1915, his father remarried, and he was raised by his stepmother, Sei. He graduated elementary school at the top of his class and took the entrance exam for the Tokyo Prefectural First Middle School but failed. He then attended a higher elementary school for one year and, in 1919, entered Okayama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Diet Of Japan
, transcription_name = ''Kokkai'' , legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet , coa_pic = Flag of Japan.svg , house_type = Bicameral , houses = , foundation=29 November 1890(), leader1_type = President of the House of Councillors , leader1 = Masakazu Sekiguchi , party1 = LDP , election1 = 11 November 2024 , leader2_type = Speaker of the House of Representatives , leader2 = Fukushiro Nukaga , party2 = LDP , election2 = 11 November 2024 , leader3_type = Prime Minister , leader3 = Shigeru Ishiba , party3 = LDP , election3 = 1 October 2024 , members = , house1 = House of Councillors , structure1 = Japan House of Councillors Political Groups - November 2024.svg , political_groups1 = Government (140) * LDP (113) * Kōmeitō (27) Opposition (91) * CDP- SDP (41) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Yokote, Akita
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Deaths
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches '' Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969. * February 5 – Australia cancels its involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 Births
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Dmitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich), 11th Symphony is subtitled ''The Year 1905'' to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–07), Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers, ''Annus Mirabilis'' papers in ''Annalen der Physik'' (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics. Events January * January 1 – In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian General Anatoly Stessel su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1969. Events *February 8 – After 147 years, the last issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in its original form appears in the United States. *March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of the English poet Ted Hughes and ex-wife of the Canadian poet David Wevill, gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. *April 22 – The first Booker Prize, Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction is awarded to P. H. Newby for ''Something to Answer For''. *August – "Penelope Ashe", purported author of a bestselling novel, ''Naked Came the Stranger'', is revealed as a group of ''Newsday'' journalists. *''unknown date'' – ''The Times Literary Supplement'' begins using the abbreviation "TLS" on its title page. New books Fiction *Eva Alexanderson – ''Kontradans'' (Counter-dance) * Eric Ambler – ''The Intercom Conspiracy'' *Jorge Amado – ''Tenda dos Milagres (novel), Tenda dos Milagres'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungeishunjū
is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine '' Bungeishunjū''. The company was founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923. It grants the annual Akutagawa Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, as well as the annual Naoki Prize for popular novelists. It also granted (from 1955 to 2001) the annual Bungeishunjū Manga Award for achievement in the manga and illustration fields. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company publishes , the weekly , and the sports magazine ''Number'', which represent public opinion of literary, political, and sport-journalistic culture, respectively. The ''Bunshun'', in particular, has come to be known for litigation involving freedom of speech issues, particularly alleged privacy violations and defamation; see, for example, Mitsuo Kagawa. List of magazines The magazines published by Bungeishunjū include: * (published monthly) * (published monthly) * (published weekly) * (monthly literary issue) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1966. Events *February ** The Nottingham-based chain of pharmacy stores Boots UK closes the last of its circulating " Booklovers' Library" branches. ** Managers of the Royal Court Theatre in London are convicted of presenting an unlicenced play, last November's premiere of Edward Bond's '' Saved''. This prosecution is considered influential in the abolition of the Theatres Act 1843 under which it is brought. *February 1 – Chinese playwright Tian Han is attacked for his historical play ''Xie Yaohuan'' (1961), an opening salvo in the Cultural Revolution. *February 10 – Author Jacqueline Susann has her first novel, '' Valley of the Dolls'', published. From a friend she obtains a list of the bookstores on whose sales figures ''The New York Times'' relies for its bestseller list. She then uses her own money to buy large quantities of her book at these stores, causing it to head the list. ''Valley of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2003. Events *February 12 – An invitation from the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for some poets to attend a conference at the White House is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group for poetry readings across the United States on the same date. *February 15 – Anti-war protests occur in London. They are later used as the setting for Ian McEwan's 2005 novel ''Saturday''. *March – The University of Mosul library is damaged and looted during the Iraq War, but many volumes are removed for protection by staff. *April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down during the Battle of Baghdad. *April – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. *November 7 – UNESCO places among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity ''wayang kulit'', a shadow p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1945. Events *January – In Paris, journalist and poet Robert Brasillach is tried and found guilty of "intelligence with the (German) enemy" during World War II, sparking a major dispute in French society over collaboration and clemency. *c. January 1 – Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Legion of Honour, Légion d'honneur. *January 27 – Primo Levi is among those liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. *February – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticizing Joseph Stalin. *February 13–February 15, 15 – The bombing of Dresden in World War II is seen by the German Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut as an American prisoner of war, and Miles Tripp as a British bomb aimer. It will feature in Józef Mackiewicz's novel ''Sprawa pulkownika Miasojedowa'' (Colonel Miasoyedov's Case, 1962 in literature, 1962), Bohumil Hrabal' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935. Events *January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' Snow Country'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japan. *January 6 – Clifford Odets becomes the first Method-trained playwright with his first produced play, the one-act '' Waiting for Lefty'' at the former Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City. This is followed by the equally political '' Awake and Sing!'' premiered on February 19 at the city's Belasco Theatre; '' Till the Day I Die'' on March 26 at the Longacre Theatre; and '' Paradise Lost'' opening on December 9 at the same location. * March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel '' Boy''. * May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
