Akimoto Matsuyo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese playwright
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Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
About Akimoto Matsuyo
- Akimoto Matsuyo (????, 2 January 1911 – 24 April 2001) was one of Japan's leading playwrights of post war Japan, and most respected as a realist Japanese playwright.
- She was known for her shingeki plays, but had written some classical puppet bunraku and kabuki dramas, and later became a scriptwriter for both radio and television shows.
- Along with Akimoto's childhood, World War II played a significant role in her career.
- As a realist playwright, she used her work to make political statements in order to warn the greater Japanese community that the government was trying to continue their pre-war imperial system which was fulfilled with capitalism, militarism, and patriarchy.
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