Mineo Higashi
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Mineo Higashi is an Okinawan writer. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize
in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no shonen, 1971). The novel's setting is from the city of Koza (later Okinawa City) in the 1950s, where the main character grows up in a family whose business is to arrange meetings between American soldiers and Okinawian girls in the family's apartment.
Akutagawa Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented semi-annually. It was established in 1935 by Kan Kikuchi, then-editor of Bungeishunjū magazine, in memory of author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa...
in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no shonen, 1971). The novel's setting is from the city of Koza (later Okinawa City) in the 1950s, where the main character grows up in a family whose business is to arrange meetings between American soldiers and Okinawian girls in the family's apartment.