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Yoshie Shiratori (白鳥 由栄, Shiratori Yoshie, July 31, 1907 – February 24, 1979) [1] was a Japanese national born in Aomori Prefecture.Shiratori is famous for having escaped from prison four different times.
The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (何が私をこうさせたか, Nani ga Watashi o Ko Saseta ka?, What Made Me Do It? [1]) is a book written by Kaneko Fumiko. Jean Inglis translated the book into English, in a translation published in 1991 by M.E. Sharpe. Mikiso Hane wrote the introduction to the English version. [2]
The poem appears in the title sequence of the film translated as: Though on a sign it is written: "Don't pluck these blossoms" – it is useless against the wind, which cannot read. It is also printed in the front matter of the original novel, [ 3 ] and is on the tombstone of Mason, who died in 1997.
Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...
While he was a middle school student, Hara became familiar with Russian literature, and also began to write poetry. He particularly admired the poets Murō Saisei and Paul Verlaine . [ 3 ] After graduating from the English literature department of Keio University , he published prose and poetry works in Mita Bungaku magazine.
Nigorie (Japanese: にごり江, Hepburn: Nigorie), translated into English as Troubled Waters and Muddy Bay, is a short story [1] by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, written and published in 1895. [2] It depicts the fate of a courtesan in the red light district of a nameless town during the Meiji era. [2]
The wife of a US Navy officer recently transferred to US custody after being jailed in Japan called on President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to support his release.
Mai Watanabe, a 25-year-old Japanese woman, was sentenced to a nine-year prison term and fined the equivalent of $51,700 by the Nagoya District Court on Monday for defrauding three men out of ...