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Ishizaka Yojiro (Jap.石 坂 洋 次郎, born July 25, 1900 in Hirosaki; † 7 October 1986) was a Japanese writer.
Ishizaka attended secondary school of his native city, and studied from 1920 at Keio University. After graduation, he taught at the Women's High School in Yokote, 1929 at the high school. In the magazine Mita bungaku published his first two novels in installments. Their second, Wakai Hito, 1936 was awarded the Mita Prize for Fiction in 1937 and adapted for the film and as a spectacle.
From 1939 lived Ishizaka in Tokyo. After the war, his novel Aoi Sanmyaku, which was for the post-war generation the symbol of a new Japan appeared. Many of his works were the models for cinema and television films and has been adapted for the theater. In 1966 he was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize.
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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 401 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
- Media Akita - Yojiro Ishizaka
- Ishizaka Yojiro at the Internet Movie Database (English)
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