:Joh Sasaki

Joh Sasaki was born in Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/hokkaido/kikaku/110/|title=夕張 ふたたび|date=November 2007|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=January 7, 2012}}{{cite web|author=Hideaki Nakamura|url=http://mainichi.jp/sp/shikou/07/01.html|title=嗜好と文化：Vol. 7 佐々木譲「うそをつくのは楽しいし、書くうえでのモチベーションになっている」|date=November 2011|work=Mainichi Shimbun|access-date=January 7, 2012}} He spent his early youth in Nakashibetsu City and later moved to Sapporo where he attended Tsukisamu High School. He released his first novel, {{Nihongo|Tekkihei, tonda|鉄騎兵、跳んだ}}, in 1979.Bungeishunjū.(August 1980).{{ASIN|B000J86570}}.Tokuma Shoten.(May 1986).{{ISBN|978-4195980750}}. Sasaki quickly established himself as a writer after winning the All Yomimono New Writers Prize for Tekkihei, tonda, which was also later adapted for the big screen.{{cite web|url=http://www.bookservice.jp/layout/bs/common/html/interview/int0803.html|title=特集Interview|date=March 2008|work=Bookservice.jp|access-date=January 7, 2012}} Today Sasaki is very widely known, and has written numerous works in genres including historical fiction, young adult fiction and police crime fiction, as well as TV crime drama adaptations.{{cite web|author=Joh Sasaki|url=http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-29627|title=エトロフ遥かなり|date=August 1993|work=BSオリジナルドラマ|access-date=January 7, 2012}}{{cite web|author=Joh Sasaki|url=http://www.tvdrama-db.com/simple_result.htm?key=%E4%BD%90%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8%E8%AD%B2&x=0&y=0|title=Joh Sasaki's TV Drama series|work=NHK, BS Japan, EX, HBC|access-date=January 7, 2012}}

In 2009, Sasaki won Japan's number one literary award, the Naoki Prize, for his work :ja:廃墟に乞う Haikyo ni kou, and also holds many other literary awards.{{cite web|author=Kyodo News|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20100116a9.html|title=Writers Shiraishi, Sasaki win 142nd Naoki Prize|date=January 2010|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=January 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.trannet.co.jp/pre_up/web_news/2010/0217.html|title=ANNOUNCEMENT: 142nd Naoki Prize Winners Selected|date=February 2010|work=Japanese Writer's House|access-date=January 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY201001290239.html|title=『廃墟に乞う』で直木賞 佐々木譲 冒険を恐れず 転機を拒まず|date=January 2010|work=Asahi Shimbun|access-date=January 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108094024/http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY201001290239.html|archive-date=January 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibna.ir/vdciv3aw.t1a3q2lict.html|title=2 novelists share Naoki Prize for literature|date=January 2010|work=Iran Book News Agency|access-date=January 7, 2012}} These days Sasaki is actively developing his stories for the stage in addition to directing a children's e-picture book project called Joh's Picture Book Project.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbp.org/|title=Joh's Picture Book Project|date=December 2012|access-date=January 7, 2012}}

Joh Sasaki is well known in Japan as a social entertainment writer.{{Citation needed|date=March 2013}} In his novel :ja:真夜中の遠い彼方 Mayonaka no tooi kanata (later re-titled to :ja:新宿のありふれた夜 Shinjuku no arifureta yoru), he depicts the underground lifestyles of the Japanese mafia, boat people, and illegal alien workers. In :ja:夜にその名を呼べば Yoru ni sono na o yobeba, Sasaki portrays a chilling Cold War scene in a mystery set in Otaru, Hokkaido and Berlin, Germany. His police mystery thriller, :ja:歌う警官 Utau keikan (later re-titled to :ja:笑う警官 Warau keikan) was adapted for the big screen and provides an early setting for his later internationally acclaimed roman-fleuve novel :ja:警官の血 Keikan no chi which was eventually adapted for television. Sasaki's :ja:ベルリン飛行指令 Berlin hikō shimei (English title: Zero Over Berlin) garnered critical acclaim for telling a World War II story from the Japanese perspective; it focuses on a fly-by-night mission involving a Type Zero Fighter (Mitsubishi A6M Zero) secretly making its way from Japan all the way to Berlin at the request of the Luftwaffe.Shinchosha.(August 1988).{{ISBN|4-10-602703-8}}.Shinchoshabunko.(January,1993).{{ISBN|4-10-122311-4}}.{{cite web|author=Joh Sasaki|translator=Hiroko Yoda with Matt Alt|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-932234-09-1|title=Zero Over Berlin|date=June 2004|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=January 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vertical-inc.com/books/sasaki_zero_RDG.html|title=ZERO OVER BERLIN READING GUIDE|date=June 2004|work=Vertical, Inc.|access-date=January 7, 2012}} Zero Over Berlin is presently Sasaki's only novel translated into English.{{cite web|author=Jonah Morgan|url=http://www.animenewsservice.com/archives/zero.htm|title=ANS Exclusive Interview: Author Joh Sasaki – Zero Over Berlin|year=2004|work=ANS|access-date=January 7, 2012}}

• Zero Over Berlin (original title: Berlin Hikō Shirei): Vertical, 2004 (Translated by Hiroko Yoda with Matt Alt).

• 1979 :ja:鉄騎兵、跳んだ Tekkihei, tonda: debut novel winning the All Yomimono New Writers Prize.
• 1989 :ja:エトロフ発緊急電 Etorofu hatsu kinkyūden: novel winning the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize and Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize.
• 1994 :ja:ストックホルムの密使 Stockholm no misshi: novel winning the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize.
• 2002 :ja:武揚伝 Buyōden: novel winning the Nitta Jirō Prize for Literature.
• 2008 :ja:警官の血 Keikan no chi (The Policeman's Lineage[http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/609-the-policemans-lineage J'Lit | Publications : The Policeman's Lineage | Books from Japan]): novel winning the first place in the "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! 2008" and the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize.
• 2009 :ja:廃墟に乞う Haikyo ni kou (Prayer in the Ruins[http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/publications/item/317-prayer-in-the-ruins J'Lit | Publications : Prayer in the Ruins | Books from Japan]): novel winning the nationally acclaimed literary award Naoki Prize.

• World War II Trilogy Series
• :ja:ベルリン飛行指令 Berlin Hikō Shirei (Shincho Bunko, 1988., Shincho Bunko, 1993)
• Manga adaptation by :ja:望月三起也 Mochitzuki Mikiya
• :ja:エトロフ発緊急電 Etorofu Hatsu Kinkyūden (Shincho Bunko, 1989., Shincho Bunko, 1994., Futabasa, 2004)
• TV drama adaptation: :ja:エトロフ遥かなり Etorofu Harukanari
• :ja:ストックホルムの密使 Stockholm no Misshi (Shincho Bunko, 1994., Shincho Bunko, 1997)
• :ja:ワシントン封印工作 Washington Fūin Kōsaku (Shincho Bunko, 1997., Shincho Bunko, 2000., Bunshu bunko, 2010)

• Ezochi (Hokkaido) Trilogy Series
• :ja:五稜郭残党伝 Goryōkaku Zantōden (Shūeisha Bunko, 1991., Shūeisha Bunko, 1994)
• :ja:雪よ荒野よ Yuki yo Kōya yo (Shūeisha Bunko, 1994., Shūeisha Bunko, 1997)
• :ja:北辰群盗録 Hokushingun Tōroku (Shūeisha Bunko, 1996., Shūeisha Bunko, 1999)
• Bakumatsu Trilogy Series
• :ja:武揚伝 Buyōden (Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., 2001., Nakakou Bunko, 2003)
• :ja:くろふね Kuro Fune (Kadokawa Shoten, 2003., Kadokawa Shoten, 2008)
• :ja:英龍伝 Eiryūden (Nikkei Masuta-zu Rensai Mikanko)
• :ja:駿女 Shunme (Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., 2005., Nakakou Bunko, 2008)

• :ja:道警シリーズ Dōkei Series
• :ja:うたう警官 Warau Keikan (Kadokawashunki Jimusho, 2004)
• Revised: :ja:笑う警官 Warau Keikan (Haruki Bunko, 2007)
• TV drama adaptation: :ja:笑う警官 Warau Keikan (2009)
• :ja:警察庁から来た男 Keisatsuchō kara Kita Otoko Kadokawashunki Jimusho, 2006., Haruki bunko, 2008)
• :ja:警官の紋章 Keikan no Monshō (Kadokawashunki Jimusho., 2008., Haruki Bunko, 2010)
• :ja:巡査の休日 Junsa no Kyūjitsu (Kadokawashunki Jimusho., 2009., Haruki Bunko, 2011)
• TV drama adaptation: :ja:巡査の休日 Junsa no Kyūjitsu: (2011)
• :ja:密売人 Mitsubainin (Kadokawashunki Jimusho., 2011)
• :ja:駐在警官・川久保篤シリーズ Chūzai Keikan Series
• :ja:制服捜査 Seifuku Sōsa (Shinchō Bunko, 2006., Shinchō Bunko 2009)
• :ja:暴雪圏 Bōsetsuken (Shinchō Bunko, 2009)
• :ja:警官の血 Keikan no Chi (Shinchō Bunko, 2007., Shinchō Bunko, 2010)
• TV drama adaptation: :ja:警官の血 Keikan no Chi (2009)
• :ja:廃墟に乞う Haikyo ni Kou (Bungeishunju Ltd., 2009)

• :ja:真夜中の遠い彼方 Mayonaka no Tooi Kanata (Daiwa shobō, 1984., Shūeisha Bunko, 1987., Tenzan bunko., 1992).
• Revised: :ja:新宿のありふれた夜 Shinjuku no Arifureta Yoru (Sukora Noberuzu, 1996., Kadokawa bunko, 1997）
• Movie title: Ware ni Utsu Yōi Ari Ready to Shoot (Fusosha Publishing, 1990)

• :ja:鉄騎兵、跳んだ Tekkihei, Tonda (Bungeishunju Ltd., 1980,. Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 1986,. Bunshun Bunko, 2010)
• Movie title: :ja:鉄騎兵、跳んだ Tekkihei, Tonda (starring Junichi Ishida)
• :ja:いつか風が見ていた Itsuka Kaze ga Miteita (CBS Sony, 1985)
• Revised: :ja:タイム・アタック Taimu Atakku (Shūeisha Bunko, 1988)
• :ja:マンハッタンの美徳 Manhattan no Bitoku (Shūeisha Bunko, 1989)
• :ja:サンクスギビング・ママ Sankusugibingu Mama (Switch Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992,. Shinchosha, 1995., Fusosha Bunko, 2008)
• :ja:きょうも舗道にすれちがう Kyō mo Hodō ni Surechigau (Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., 1994,. Nakakou bunko, 2000)

• :ja:死の色の封印 Shi no Iro no Fūin (Tokumanoberuzsu, 1984., Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 1989)
• :ja:白い殺戮者 Shiroi Sakurikusha (Tokumanoberusu, 1986., Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 1991)
• :ja:牙のある時間 Kiba no Aru Jikan (Magajinhausu, 1998., Haruki Bunko, 2000)

• :ja:ユニット Yunitto (Bungeishunju Ltd., 2003., Bunshu Bunko, 2005)
• TV drama adaptation: :ja:ユニット Yunitto (2006)
• :ja:カウントダウン Countdown (Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2010)
• :ja:地層捜査 Chisō Shinsa (Bungeishunju, 2012)

• :ja:冒険者カストロ Bōkensha kasutoro (Shūeisha Bunko, 2002., Shūeisha Bunko, 2005)
• :ja:幕臣たちと技術立国 Bakushintachi to Gijutsu Rikkoku (Shūeisha Shinsho, 2006)
• :ja:わが夕張 わがエトロフ Wa ga Yūbari waga Etorofu (Hokkaido Shinbunsha, 2008)

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