Mineo Higashi

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1938}}

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| nationality = Japanese

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| awards = Akutagawa Prize (1971)

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{{Short description|Japanese writer}}

Mineo Higashi (born 1938) is a Japanese writer. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1971 for his novel An Okinawan Boy (Okinawa no shonen, 1971).{{cite news|title=Okinawa Writers Excel in Literature|newspaper=The Okinawa Times|date=21 July 2001}} The novel's setting is from the city of Koza (later Okinawa City) in the 1950s, where the main character grows up in a family whose business is to arrange meetings between American soldiers and Okinawian girls in the family's apartment.