Jun Henmi
Jun Henmi, real name Mayumi Shimizu, was a Japanese writer and poet born in Mizuhashi, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. She was known for her works of fiction and nonfiction about people affected by World War II. Henmi was the daughter of Gen'yoshi Kadokawa, founder of publisher Kadokawa Shoten and the older sister of Haruki Kadokawa.
Henmi won the Nitta Jirō Culture Prize in 1984 for her 1983 book Yamato: The Last Battle, about crew members of the Japanese battleship Yamato and their final voyage during Operation Ten-Go. The book was later made into a 2005 movie under the same title. Henmi also won two nonfiction literary awards for her 1989 work Farewell Notes from a Prison Camp about notes received 10 years after World War II by the family of a man who died in a Russian prison camp in Siberia.
Henmi died on September 21, 2011, after collapsing in her home in a Tokyo suburb. She was 72 years old.
