Mineo Higashi

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1938 –

13

Who is Mineo Higashi?

Mineo Higashi is an Okinawan writer. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy. The novel's setting is from the city of Koza 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.

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Born
1938

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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