Shun Medoruma

Shun Medoruma (Japanese目 取 真 俊, Medoruma Shun, born October 6, 1960 in Nakijin, Okinawa Prefecture) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Medoruma visited the prefecture operated Kitayama High School in Nakijin and completed his studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Ryukyu from. He first worked as a factory worker, guardian and tutor, and then took up a position as a teacher at a Japanese prefecture operated high school, which he held until 2003.

In 1997 he received for Suiteki (水滴, dt drops of water ) both the " literary prize of the art festival Kyushu ", as well as the coveted Akutagawa Prize. Three years later he won with Mabuigumi (魂 込め) again two awards: the Kiyama - Shohei Literature Prize and the Yasunari Kawabata Prize for Literature. 2004, the novel Fūon (风 音) was filmed by a written his own screenplay of Yōichi Higashi and awarded at the World Film Festival in Montreal with the Innovation Award.

In addition to his narrative work Medoruma also published essays and reviews in the Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo. Thematically Medoruma deals repeatedly with the Battle of Okinawa, the still ongoing deployment of U.S. armed forces and the resulting problems. Recently Medoruma also wrote about the litigation against Kenzaburo Oe and Iwanami Shoten and the publisher about the approval process for Japanese textbooks.

Works (selection)

Essays

• Shun Medoruma: We Can not Allow Governor Nakaima to Falsify the History of the Battle of Okinawa. In: The Asia- Pacific Journal. Vol 10, No. Issue 15, No. 2, April 9, 2012 ( Original title:仲井真 県 当局 による 沖縄 戦 の 歴史 改ざん を 許し て は なら ない, translated by Rumi Sakamoto, Matthew Allen) ( http://www.japanfocus. org/-Medoruma-Shun/3738 ).
• Shun Medoruma: Hope. In: University of San Francisco ( ed.): Japan Policy Research Institute Critique. VI, No. No. 12 December 1999 ( translated by Steve Rabson ) ( http://www.jpri.org/publications/critiques/critique_VI_12.html, accessed 22 July 2012 ).
• Shun Medoruma: The Okinawa Peace Prize Fraud. In: Japan Focus. October 15, 2002 ( translated by Denman Glober, Konstantinos Papadakis, Tai Wei Lim, Yi Han Pei, Eng Kiat Yak, Masahito Ogasawara, Shirley Liang, Meredith Dunne ) ( http://www.japanfocus.org/-Medoruma-Shun/ 1758).