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Inoue Hisashi: Crusader with a Pen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tanaka Nobuko
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So wide-ranging are 71-year-old Inoue Hisashi ‘s talents and activities - including playwright, director, novelist, public intellectual and activist, that it is difficult to know which to focus on at the expense of others.

Inoue not only writes plays regularly for numerous theaters in Japan, but his own Komatsu-za company that he founded in 1983, and which only stages his plays, is constantly touring the country. He is also a prolific best selling novelist and has been president of the prestigious Nihon Pen Club since 2003 – as well as being director of Nihon Gekisakka Kyokai (Japan Playwrights Association), director of Sendai Literature Museum and the director of a library of his own collection of books in his small hometown of Higashi Okitama-gun in rural Yamagata Prefecture.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , October 2006 , e5
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