Tomoko Hoshino, Jan. 2025
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The 14th Film Festival for Passing on Memories and Records of War - The significance of 80 years since the war's end
The documentary film about a soldier, "The Last Message: 'The Invincible Kamikaze Soldier' Corporal Tomoji Sasaki," will be screened. Following the screening, there will be a talk event featuring Tomoko Hoshino and director Michio Uematsu.
Tokyo, Ikebukuro at Shin-Bungeiza Theater, August 4, 2025
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The 18th Nagaoka Peace Forum
Commemorative Lecture & Reading for the 80th of the Nagaoka Air Raid
Tomoko Hoshino will give a reading of a memoir written by a woman who experienced the Nagaoka Air Raid on August 1, 1945. This will be followed by a lecture titled "Connecting Hope: From Here in Nagaoka."
Aore Nagaoka, Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, August 1, 2025
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Information on New Books
Tomoko Hoshino's essay "Tobacco," from her serialized column "New Kamakura: Day by Day," has been included in Best Essays 2025, selected by the Japan Writers' Association.
The essay traces family memories related to war through casual everyday scenes, weaving in prayers for peace.
Published on August 5, 2025
In the Yomiuri Shimbun's front-page column "Editor's Notebook" (morning edition, July 15, 2025), an essay by Tomoko Hoshino titled "Fireworks and I" (featured in "New Kamakura: Day by Day," July issue) was introduced.
It's a short essay about the "bittersweetness" evoked by delicate sparklers, stemming from childhood memories associated with them.
Contains Tomoko Hoshino's first fantasy novel, "Fiora's Night"
Tomoko Hoshino's "30 years of Kamakura day to day" included
Magazine "Poetry & Fantasy" was founded by the manga artist Takashi Yanase.
Tomoko Hoshino has been serializing essays since 2024, taking over "Kamakura Day by Day" written by Member of the Japan Art Academy Taku Miki in the magazine "Kamakura Shunju".
