島田洋七

Japan

Yoshichi SHIMADA
born in 1950. Japanese famous comedian and writer. His real name is Akihiro Tokunaga. After the explosion of the atom bombs, the writer’s father died of nuclear radiation. Because his mother couldn’t afford to take care of two sons and work at the same time, he was sent to his grandma’s house in Saga. Although the grandma was so poor in those days, she always had some wonderful ways to go on living and made life full of discovery and laugh.