is a Japan

Japan

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ese poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and novelist  born on June 16, 1948. He dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University

Aoyama Gakuin University

, abbreviated AGU, is a Japanese Christian university in Shibuya near Omotesandō, Tokyo, Japan. Aoyama Gakuin University is part of a comprehensive educational institute called Aoyama Gakuin, which includes a kindergarten, an elementary school, junior and senior high schools, and a women's junior...

 while he was majoring in economics

Economics

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Biography

While in Aoyama

Aoyama

Aoyama may refer to:-Places:* Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan** Aoyama Gakuin University, famous university located in Aoyama, Tokyo** Aoyama-itchōme Station, a railway station in Minato, Tokyo, Japan...

, he ran a business known as Nejime Mingeiten, a folk craft store. He also was a member of a grass lot baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 team known as the "Fouls".
In 1989, he won the Naoki Prize

Naoki Prize

The Naoki Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semiannually. The official name is Naoki Sanjugo Prize. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the Bungeishunjū magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo...

. In 1997, he became the first champion of "Poetry Boxing".
In 2001, he was in charge of the NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

 panel "Words of Power, Poems of Power"

Novels

• Poetry Anthologies
• Negima Shoichi Shishu (Negima Shoichi Poetry Anthology)
• Noumaku Menma
• Koenji
  Koenji
  is an area of Tokyo in Suginami ward, west of Shinjuku. The neighborhood is named after some old temples in the area.Kōenji is primarily a bedroom community with easy access to Shinjuku and Tokyo Stations. It was largely unaffected by the 1980s building boom and therefore many of the houses and...
  
   Junjo Shōtengai
  Shotengai
  A shōtengai is a style of Japanese commercial district running along a certain street. Shōtengai often connect to the nearest train station. Most suburbs and towns of Japan have shōtengai of varying size, and larger shōtengai may take the form of covered arcades that are blocked off to traffic...
  
  (Koenji pure heart shopping street)

Essays

• I want to give the power of words
• The enigma of a Nagasaki home.
• 200 Letters to Nagasaki
• Nejime's bruxism