:Kaoru Nakamaru
{{Short description|Japanese journalist and writer}}
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{{nihongo|Kaoru Nakamaru|中丸 薫|Nakamaru Kaoru|born 23 May 1937}} is a Japanese journalist, television interviewer, and author with a background in international politics.{{cite book|title= 新現代日本執筆者大事典 |trans-title=Contemporary writers of Japan|year=1992–1993 |publisher=Nichigai Associates|location=Tokyo|isbn=4816911618|page=v. 3: 563|editor=Junichiro Kida |language=Japanese |chapter=Nakamaru Kaoru}}
Career
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Nakamaru studied abroad at Columbia University. While beginning to write articles and books on international relations, she hosted a number of nationally broadcast television interview series, including {{Nihongo||世界の主役|Sekai no Shuyaku}} in 1972.{{cite web|script-title=ja:テレビ東京の歩み|trans-title=History of TV Tokyo|url=http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/contents/ir/jpn/company/pdf/tvtokyo.pdf|publisher=TV Tokyo|language=Japanese|accessdate=8 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907064125/http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/contents/ir/jpn/company/pdf/tvtokyo.pdf|archivedate=7 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:あの日のテレビ欄|trans-title=That day's TV listing|url=http://www.showanavi.jp/tv/1973/0415/|work=Showanavi|publisher= Ozora Publishing Co,. Ltd.|language=Japanese|accessdate=8 May 2014}} The magazine Newsweek nicknamed her "the Edward R. Murrow of Japan" in a 1974 profile that introduced her alongside Makiko Tanaka as one of a "handful of Japanese women who have bucked their country's patriarchal system".{{cite journal|title=Four Women of Japan|journal=Newsweek|date=28 January 1974|page=39}} The profile itself was news in Japan.{{cite journal|title=米週刊誌に選ばれた 「日本の代表的女性」|trans-title="Women who represent Japan" selected by US weekly magazine |journal=Shūkan Yomiuri|date=9 February 1974|page=22}}{{cite journal|title=米一流誌が評価したトップレディの弱点|trans-title=The weak points of the top women lauded by a leading US paper |journal=Shūkan Taishū|date=14 February 1974|pages=16}} During her career, she has interviewed such world figures as Saddam Hussein, Edward M. Kennedy, the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Idi Amin.{{cite journal|title=世界の指導者と心で語り合う|trans-title=Talking from the heart with world leaders|journal=Shūkan Yomiuri|date=24 September 1977|page=70}}{{cite news|title=中丸薫さん、世界のトップと出会い |trans-title=Kaoru Nakamaru - meeting with world leaders|newspaper=Mainichi Shinbun (evening edition)|date=10 August 1987}}
Family
Nakamaru asserts that she is the granddaughter of the Emperor Meiji.{{cite web|title=Profile of Kaoru Nakamaru|url=http://www.nakamarukaoru.com/profile/indexE.html|work=Kaoru Nakamaru official website |publisher= The International Affairs Institute for World Peace|year = 2008|accessdate=8 May 2014}} These claims have been disputed in a Korean newspaper article.{{cite journal|title=韓国の新聞に「偽者」と報じられた「明治天皇の孫」中丸薫|trans-title=Kaoru Nakamaru "granddaughter of Emperor Meiji" reported as fake in Korean newspaper|journal=Shūkan Shinchō|date=2 September 2004|volume=49|issue=33|pages=46–47}}
Nakamaru was married to the film and television actor Tadao Nakamaru, who died on 23 April 2009.{{cite web|script-title=ja:中丸忠雄氏死去 俳優|trans-title=Tadao Nakamaru dies|url=http://www.47news.jp/CN/200904/CN2009042801001265.html|work=47 News|publisher=Press Net Japan Co., Ltd. |location=Japan|language=Japanese|date=28 April 2009|accessdate=8 May 2014}}
References
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External links
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