Background
Her father, Tsuneo Ikeda, was a sports journalist and businessman who started Baseball Magazine and his mother’s family founded Kudō Shashin-kan in Ryōgoku.
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Miyoko Kudo
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Career
After graduating from Otsuma High School for Girls, she entered Charles University in Prague and then dropped out. Her first marriage ended quickly and then, in 1973, she fell in love with Kinya Tsuruta who was a professor at the University of British Columbia. After that she started her career as a non-fiction writer
She also dealt with the issue of sex among the elderly in her book Keraku.
She says that she is prone to feel and experience daily "strange events" similar to those in kaidan which she recorded and published in Hibi Kore Kaidan. She contributed to a volume opposing changes to Japan’s imperial succession laws and she supports the controversial film The Truth about Nanjing.
In 2009, Sankei Books published her book Kantō Daishinsai ‘Chōsenjin Gyakusatsu’ Number Shinjitsu in which she concludes that there was no massacre of Koreans during the Great Kantō earthquake but rather there was a legitimate security operation undertaken to prevent groups taking advantage of the chaos to activate a plot to assassinate Prince Regent Hirohito.
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Personality
She is a conservative who for a time served as vice-president of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform and has recently written a biography of Isoroku Yamamoto and engaged in debates about Tokyo Governor Shintarō Ishihara.
