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Tatsuhiro Oshiro

Oshiro grew up in central Okinawa under the decades of U.S. military administration that followed the war, and became the first Okinawan-born author to win the Akutagawa Prize, for Cocktail Party in 1967.

Cocktail Party

Understand the real scale of U.S. base presence behind Oshiro's Cocktail Party — Okinawa's first Akutagawa Prize winner — at the sites where that presence is still impossible to ignore today.