Shun Medoruma

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Shun Medoruma ( Japanese 目 取 真 俊 , Medoruma Shun ; born October 6, 1960 , in Nakijin , Okinawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer.

Life

Medoruma attended the prefectural Kitayama High School in Nakijin and graduated from the Law Faculty of Ryūkyū University . He initially worked as a factory worker, guard and tutor and then took a job as a Japanese teacher at a prefectural high school, which he kept until 2003.

In 1997 he received both the "Literature Prize of the Kyūshū Art Festival" and the coveted Akutagawa Prize for Suiteki ( 水滴 , dt. Water drops ) . Three years later he won two awards with Mabuigumi ( 魂 込 め ) again: the Kiyama Shōhei Literature Prize and the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize . In 2004 the novel Fūon ( 風 音 ) was filmed by Yōichi Higashi based on a script he had written himself and was awarded the Innovation Prize at the World Film Festival in Montréal .

In addition to his narrative work, Medoruma also publishes essays and reviews in the Okinawa Times and the Ryūkyū Shimpō. Thematically, Medoruma deals again and again with the Battle of Okinawa , the stationing of American armed forces, which continues to this day, and the problems resulting from it. More recently, Medoruma also wrote about the lawsuit against Kenzaburō Ōe and the Iwanami Shoten publishing house, as well as the approval process for Japanese school books .

Works (selection)

  • 1997 Suiteki ( 水滴 )
  • 1999 Mabuigumi ( 魂 込 め )
  • 2004 Fūon ( 風 音 )
  • 2006 Niji no tori ( 虹 の 鳥 )

Essays

  • Shun Medoruma: We Cannot Allow Governor Nakaima to Falsify the History of the Battle of Okinawa . In: The Asia-Pacific Journal . Vol 10, Issue 15, No 2, April 9, 2012 ( japanfocus.org - Japanese: 仲 井 真 県 当局 に よ る 沖 縄 戦 の 歴 史 改 ざ ざ ん を 許 し し て は な ら な い . Translated by Rumi Sakamoto, Matthew Allen).
  • Shun Medoruma: Hope . In: University of San Francisco (Ed.): Japan Policy Research Institute Critique . tape VI , no. December 12 , 1999 ( jpri.org [accessed July 22, 2012]).
  • Shun Medoruma: The Okinawa Peace Prize Fraud . In: Japan Focus . October 15, 2002 ( japanfocus.org ).

literature

  • Michael Molasky: Medoruma Shun - The writer as public intellectual in Okinawa today . In: Laura Elizabeth Hein, Mark Selden (Eds.): Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0-7425-1865-5 , pp. 161–186 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 22, 2012]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 目 取 真 俊 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 17, 2012 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Medoruma, Shun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 目 取 真 俊 (Japanese); 島 袋 正 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakijin , Okinawa Prefecture