An event was held in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, to look back on the works and life of Takeshi Kaiko, a writer who has been widely read for more than 30 years after his death for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
The event was held on the 7th with a gathering of writers related to Kaiko in Chigasaki City, where Kaiko spent his later years.
Born in Osaka in 1930, Takeshi Kaiko left works such as the Akutagawa Prize-winning work "Naked King", and as an "acting writer" such as gathering information on the situation in the Vietnam War and summarizing it in "Vietnam Senki". is known.
At the event, using the texts and voices left by Kaiko, he introduced his experience of an air raid on Osaka at the end of the Pacific War, and his experience of a strategy in which only 17 out of 200 people survived during his coverage of the Vietnam War. I was.
It was then explained that he had carried out anti-war activities, such as placing public notices in American newspapers.
Participating writers and university professors said at the symposium, "This is a hint for thinking about the relationship between war and war," and discussed the meaning of Kaiko's work in the midst of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A woman in her 60s who participated said, "I want to borrow various works from the library and read them."