Japanese pacifist playwright dies: family
AFP
TOKYO- Japanese playwright Hisashi Inoue, best known for his vehement pacifism, has died of lung cancer, his family said Sunday. He was 75.
Inoue was known as a strong proponent of the Japanese constitution, imposed by the United States after Tokyo surrendered in World War II. It renounces the use of military force in settling international disputes.
Hiroshima after the US nuclear bombing on the city during World War II.
After starting his career as a TV script and gag writer while still at university, he published a number of novels and plays, including "Tegusari Shinju" (Handcuffed Double Suicide) which won him the prestigious Naoki literature award in 1972.
His works also include "Chichi to Kuraseba", translated in English as "The Face of Jizo", a play about a father and daughter who experienced the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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