Otohiko Kaga

Otohiko Kaga (Japanese加 贺 乙 彦, Kaga Otohiko; born April 22, 1929 in Tokyo) is a Japanese writer.

Kaga studied psychology and criminology at the University of Tokyo. He worked for some time in the hospital and in prison, and then studied from 1957 to 1960 Psychiatry in Paris. In 1960 he returned to Japan, where he was from 1965 to 1969 professor at the Medical and Dental University Tokyo. After that he had until 1979 been a professor at Sophia University.

Since the 1960s, Kaga was active as a writer since 1979, he lives and works as a freelance writer. In 1973 he was awarded for Kaerazaru natsu ( " The hand of the giants" ) to the Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô price. In 1979 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Senkoku for Japanese literature. In 1982 the historical novel Ikari no nai fune. He received the Osaragi - Jiro - Prize in 1986 for Jitsugen.

After his conversion to Catholicism in 1987 Kaga wrote the novel Takayama Ukon ( 1999), which appeared under the title " Cross and Sword" in 2006 in German language. In 2011 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits ( Bunka Kōrōsha ).

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• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 446 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Histo - Couch - Kaga Otohiko
• Bebra Verlag - Kaga Otohiko