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Yoko Moriwaki (森脇 瑤子, Moriwaki Yōko; 7 June 1932 – 6 August 1945) was a thirteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who lived in Hiroshima during World War II. [1] Her diary, a record of wartime Japan before the bombing of Hiroshima, was published in Japan in 1996. It was published by HarperCollins in English in 2013 as Yoko's Diary. [2]
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. [1]
The protagonist of "The Diving Pool" is Aya, a schoolgirl in her early teens. Aya's parents run a Christian orphanage at which she is "the only child who is not an orphan, a fact that has disfigured my family"; [3] she develops an infatuation with Jun, one of the orphans and a talented diver.
Yoko's Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar, or simply Yoko's, is a Japanese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. United States. The restaurant was established in Bend, Oregon, in 1989. An outpost opened in northwest Portland's Northwest District in 1994, and relocated to southeast Portland's Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood in 1997. The Bend restaurant ...
“Yoko and John had endless questions about this subject.” Lennon once even called Mintz at 4 a.m. and asked him to find “diet pills.” Related: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Relationship: A ...
Yoko is injured from the bombing and the women are forced to walk the rest of the way. After receiving medical treatment in Seoul, Yoko, her sister, and mother board a train to Busan, and then a ship to Japan. When Yoko, her sister Ko, and her mother reach Fukuoka, Japan, it is not the beautiful, comforting, welcoming place Yoko dreamed of ...
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The magazine's critical summary reads: "Another reviewer, in a different vein, mentioned The Diary of Anne Frank. In this way, "Ogawa finds new ways to express old anxieties about authoritarianism, environmental depredation and humanity's willingness to be complicit in its own demise" (Washington Post)". [7]