Keiko Nosaka (born 1938), prominent Japanese koto player, specializing in contemporary music
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Akiyuki Nosaka (born 1930), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and former member of the House of Councillors
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Nosaka, Chiba, town located in Sōsa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Sōsa was founded on January 23, 2006 as a result of the merger between the former city of Yōkaichiba, and the former town of Nosaka (from Sōsa District).
Bitmob writer Jasmine Rea called Fragile Dreams an "experience rather than a game", citing that it had an emotional impact similar to that of Isao Takahata's adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's novel Grave of the Fireflies.
After Nosaka went underground, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reported that he had temporarily returned to China.
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After the World War II, Nosaka's return to Japan was facilitated by E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian representative to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, who may also have been a Soviet spy.
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The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.