Yō Henmi

Yō Henmi (辺見庸), born September 27, 1944, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese novelist, journalist, and poet. A former ace reporter for Kyodo News Agency, serving as Beijing and Hanoi correspondent, he won the Akutagawa Prize in 1991 for his debut novel Automatic Wake-Up Device and the Kodansha Nonfiction Award in 1994 for Mono Kuu Hitobito, with notable works including Beneath the Red Bridge's Lukewarm Water (filmed by Shohei Imamura) and poetry collections like Namagashira. He resigned from journalism in 1996 to focus on writing, continuing to produce critiques of power and explorations of human extremes. NamuWiki, Wikidata