Yōko Ōta (大田 洋子, Ōta Yōko, 20 February 1903 or 18 November 1906[a] – 10 December 1963) was a Japanese writer. Many of her works are associated with the Atomic bomb literature genre. Ōta was born Hatsuko (初子, "first born") Fukuda in Hiroshima [b] to a wealthy landowner and his second wife Tomi.

With 1954's Han-ningen Yoko took a different turn, presenting a Hiroshima story with no identifiable bombing incidents. Using a fictional stand-in named Oda, the novel follows a famous writer at odds with Japan's medical establishment over an unidentifiable nervous disorder.

Nov 13, 2014 · Japanese-born jockey Yoko Ota, 35, is not a dreamer but she has spent half her life living in optimistic hope on a sometimes frightening roller coast ride in racing. She always wanted to be a jockey but her applications to join an apprentice school in …

Yoko Ota may refer to: Yōko Ōta, a Japanese female writer Yoko Hunnicutt, née Ota, a Japanese female athlete

Apr 6, 2021 · Ōta Yōko is known as the A-bomb writer, a label she herself endorsed, because she was the only hibakusha writer to have survived long enough to write an entire body of work on the bombings. (Hibakusha translates literally to “person affected by the bomb.”)

Yōko Ōta was a Japanese author of Atomic bomb literature. Ōta was born as Fukuda, Hatsuko in Hiroshima city, her parents divorced when she was eight and she moved to live with the Fukuda family. As a young girl she read Takuboku Ishikawa and Shusei Tokuda, as well as Goethe and Heine. She also read and was influenced by Tolstoi.

Yoko Hunnicutt, née Ota (born 14 January 1975 in Amagasaki, Hyōgo and raised in Kamakura, Kanagawa) is a Japanese high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Sapporo.

"Fire Flies" by Yoko Ota (27 pages first published in 1953) Yoko Ota was already a well known author prior to experiencing the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima. Her writings focus closely on individual victims of the blast.

Feb 27, 2019 · Ota Yoko (1903–1963) was the only prominent novelist to survive the bombing of Hiroshima. After it, she wrote only essays and fictional stories, which documented the experiences of victims, carving out the field of atomic literature in which she is renowned.

Yoko Ota (1903-1963) was a writer born in Hiroshima City, and was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hakushima, Hiroshima. Her first work, "City of Corpses," was based on her own experience of the bombing.