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Hidemitsu Takahashi

たかはし ひでみね

Takahashi Hidemitsu

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1961-11-13 （Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan）
死没
2024-11-13 （Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan） 62歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Yokohama (childhood) → Tokyo (after entering university)

経歴

職業
non-fiction writer, writer, journalist, former boxer, boxing trainer, researcher
活動期間
1992年〜2024年
影響を受けた人物
Haruki Murakami

学歴

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Faculty of Foreign Studies / Department of Mongolian
期間: 1980-1984
卒業年: 1984
国: Japan

受賞歴

10th Kobayashi Hideo Award
2011
対象作品: Who Were My Ancestors?
主催: Shinchosha
結果: winner
23rd Mizuno Sports Writer Award (Excellence Prize)
2013
対象作品: "Even If Weak, You Can Win" — The Theory of Kaisei High School Baseball Club
主催: Mizuno Sports Promotion Foundation
結果: winner (Excellence Prize)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

TOKYO Foreigners' Trial

1992年 non-fiction

A non-fiction examination of trials involving foreigners, questioning the justice system and society.

justiceimmigrant issuessocial issues

The Country of Trauma

2005年 non-fiction

Reporting and reflections on postwar Japan and collective memory.

postwar historytraumamemory

No, I Can't Swim

2005年 non-fiction

A light non-fiction work blending personal experience and essays.

personal historyeveryday lifehumor
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] No, I Can't Swim (film) (2022)

Who Were My Ancestors?

2011年 non-fiction

A reportage exploring family history and lineage to examine Japanese society and memory.

family historymemorylineage

"Even If Weak, You Can Win" — The Theory of Kaisei High School Baseball Club

2012年 sports non-fiction

A long-form account of Kaisei High School's baseball club, depicting team building and coaching philosophy.

sportseducationteamwork
映像化・舞台化
  • [TV drama] Even If Weak, You Can Win: The Dreams of Awashi-sensei and the Hapless High School Players (2014)

全著作

  • TOKYO Foreigners' Trial
  • 30 Seconds to the Gong
  • Visiting False Japanese: The Returned South American Nikkei
  • The Wonderful Radio Exercise
  • Mechanisms of Democracy
  • The Country of Trauma
  • Sentimental Diet
  • No, I Can't Swim
  • What's Your Hobby?
  • The Sumo Man
  • Who Were My Ancestors?
  • Conclusion, Next Week
  • "Even If Weak, You Can Win" — The Theory of Kaisei High School Baseball Club
  • Men Are Annoying!
  • Japanese Who Don't Want to Lose Out
  • Dictionary of Unclear Japanese
  • Life Is Made of Manners
  • Where Japanese Men Are Left Over
  • Retirement Primer: Must You Be Lively?
  • This Is the Power Spot
  • The Worried Person
  • A Lifetime's Match: Masters of Life
  • Moral Classroom: Must You Be a Good Person?
  • My Father Was Nietzsche: 436 Days with a Father with Dementia
  • The Guardians of Words

翻案

  • Even If Weak, You Can Win: The Dreams of Awashi-sensei and the Hapless High School Players (TV drama)
  • No, I Can't Swim (film)

作風・主題

文体
fact-based, objective non-fictionreadable essayistic proseon-the-ground reportage style
頻出モチーフ
family and lineagepostwar traumaeveryday detailsports and coachinglanguage and words

健康

  • stomach cancer
    2024 - 2024-11-13
    Died on 2024-11-13 after illness

評価・遺産

Left a wide body of non-fiction examining contemporary Japanese social issues and personal histories; works on sports and family were adapted for screen. Praised for journalistic reporting and accessible prose.

大衆文化への影響

  • 'Even If Weak, You Can Win' adapted into a TV drama (2014)
  • 'No, I Can't Swim' adapted into a film (2022)

引用

  • Mr. Hidemitsu Takahashi is a somewhat unusual person; every time I meet him he always says, 'Oh dear, I'm in trouble, I'm beside myself.' He is tall, well-built, generally tanned (perhaps from reporting), and even sports a black beard — in the old-fashioned sense, a real stalwart.
    出典: Haruki Murakami, Zatsubunshu (Collected Essays) (2011年)

豆知識

  • His family name is properly written with the high kanji variant 髙橋 but is often represented as 高橋 in common usage.
  • Former boxer and has worked as a boxing trainer.
  • Served as a researcher for Haruki Murakami's 'Underground'.