:Shōko Ieda
{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
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| birth_place = Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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| occupation = Writer
| nationality = Japanese
| period = 1985 – present
| genre = Nonfiction
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{{Nihongo|Shōko Ieda|家田 荘子|Ieda Shōko|born 1958 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan}} is a Japanese writer of non-fiction. She is known for titillating novels replete with interracial sex scenes, and has aroused a great deal of controversy in Japan; her works have been accused of "demonising female sexuality".{{cite journal |title=The Domestication of AIDS: Stigma, gender, and the body politic in 1990s Japan |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anthro/images/medical%20anth%20submission_joanne%20.pdf |publisher=Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College}}{{cite journal |title=Assigning Blame for AIDS: The Demonization of Female Sexuality in Japan |author=Pradt, Sarah |publisher=Association for Asian Studies |year=1995 |url=http://www.aasianst.org/absts/1995abst/japan/jses99.htm}}
Career
Ieda rose to public prominence through her 1986 book Gokudō no Tsuma-tachi, about the girlfriends and spouses of yakuza. She spent nearly a year getting to know her subjects, and had also been shot at during the course of writing the book.{{cite news |newspaper=The Japan Times |title=Comeuppance in a comely package |last=Schilling |first=Mark |date=2005-04-05 |accessdate=2007-05-17 |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20050406a3.html}} It was later adapted into the Yakuza Wives film series by Toei, which initially starred Shima Iwashita, and later Reiko Takashima. Her books continued to receive a good popular reception and be made into movies; her 1990 Hug Me, Kiss Me was awarded the 22nd Ohya Non-fiction Prize in 1991.{{cite web |url=http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/ohya/list1.htm |title=大宅賞受賞一覧 (List of Recipients of the Ohya Prize) |publisher=Bungei Shunshū |date=April 2007 |accessdate=2007-05-22}}See 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞 Hug Me, Kiss Me was an account of her time volunteering in organization offering assistance to AIDS patients while living in Savannah, Georgia in 1987, along with an epilogue about the risk AIDS posed to Japanese tourists in Hawaii; its cinematic adaptation was the first film in Japan to openly address AIDS. However, her descriptions of the African American community were accused of making AIDS seem "alien" and "distant" to her Japanese target audience.
Ieda's later works continued her practice of touching on contentious themes; her 1991 book Yellow Cab, about the eponymous stereotype of Japanese women overseas who allegedly engaged in indiscriminate sex with foreigners, attracted a great deal of media attention in Japan, including two television documentaries by TV Asahi and Tokyo Broadcasting System.{{cite book |last=Ma |first=Karen |title=The Modern Madame Butterfly: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Cross-Cultural Relationships |year=1996 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=0-8048-2041-4 |pages=62–68}} George Sarratt, her research assistant for the book, later denounced major portions as "fraudulent", even indicating that she had altered direct quotes from interviewees. Japanese women in New York also set up a protest group against the book, feeling that the stereotype had damaged their professional image; their activities, which were described as "Ieda-bashing" by one scholar studying the "yellow cab" phenomenon, resulted in a sharp decline in her literary reputation.{{cite book |last=Kelsky |first=Karen |title=Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams |url=https://archive.org/details/womenonvergejapa00kels |url-access=registration |publisher=Duke University Press |location=North Carolina, United States |year=2001 |isbn=0-8223-2816-X |pages=[https://archive.org/details/womenonvergejapa00kels/page/139 139–142]}}
Despite the negative attention she received for Yellow Cab, Ieda continued to produce popular works; her 1994 novel Women Who Slept with the Bubble was made into a series of movies, the newest of which, starring Yoko Mitsuya, was released in June 2007.{{cite news |publisher=Cinema Today |url=http://cinematoday.jp/movie/T0005342 |title=ITバブルと寝た女たち |date=2007-05-06 |accessdate=2007-05-17}}{{Update after|2010|11|25}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |title=俺の肌に群がった女たち (Ore no hada ni muragatta onnatachi) |publisher=Futami Shobō |date=August 1985 |isbn=4-576-85049-0 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=極道の妻たち (Gokudō no Tsuma-tachi) |publisher=Bungei Shunjū |date=August 1986 |isbn=4-16-340800-2 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=私を抱いてそしてキスして―エイズ患者と過した一年の壮絶記録 (Hug Me, Kiss Me: A heroic record of my year with AIDS patients) |publisher=Bungei Shunjū |date=November 1990 |isbn=4-16-344770-9 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=イエローキャブ―成田を飛び立った女たち (Yellow Cab: The women who took off at Narita) |publisher=Kōdansha |date=December 1991 |isbn=4-06-264954-3 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=ラブ・ジャンキー―日本発タイ行"性"の直行便 (Love Junkies: Direct sex flight from Japan to Thailand) |publisher=Shūeisha |date=November 1992 |isbn=4-08-780170-5 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=バブルと寝た女たち (Women who slept with the bubble) |publisher=Kōdansha |date=March 1994 |isbn=4-06-206842-7 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}
- {{cite book |title=産めない女に価値はない? (Are Infertile Women Worthless?) |publisher=Fusōsha |date=August 1999 |isbn=4-594-02724-5 |last=Ieda |first=Shōko}}{{cite news |title=Japan: couples feel social pressure to have kids |publisher=AAP General News |date=2000-02-01 |accessdate=2007-05-17 |last=Kubota |first=Coco |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-24806736.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516162731/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-24806736.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-16}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.gokutsuma.com/}} {{in lang|ja}}
- {{IMDb name|1068209}}
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Category:Writers from Aichi Prefecture
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