Nagasaki Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
It was Japan’s destruction and rebirth that shaped his literary beginnings.
A devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945.Photographer: MPI/Getty Images
When Ishiguro accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, he recalled writing his first novel in his twenties, A Pale View of Hills, published in 1982.
An adaptation by Japanese filmmaker Kei Ishikawa opens in UK cinemas on March 13. Psychological portraits of how traumatic memories are repressed in order to begin again.
Such personal themes mirror how postwar Japan grappled with both its suffering and its own wartime atrocities — a topic that remains relevant as the nation considers revising its pacifist constitution.
Bloomberg 13 March 2026
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