Background
Kamisaka was born as Yoshiko Niwa in Tokyo on June 10, 1930.
上坂 冬子
Kamisaka was born as Yoshiko Niwa in Tokyo on June 10, 1930.
Her best-known work is ""Keishu Nazare-en" about a facility for Japanese widows of South Koreans. Other works dealt with Sugamo Prison, the Battle of Iwo Jima and vivisection experiments conducted by the Japanese on prisoners of war. Fuyoko Kamisaka died of cancer, aged 78, on April 14, 2009 in her native Tokyo.