is a Japanese author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 and television personality.

Early life

Sawako was born in Tokyo on 1 November 1953. Her father is the novelist Hiroyuki Agawa

Hiroyuki Agawa

is a Japanese author born on December 24, 1920, in Hiroshima, Japan. He is known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays.- Literary career :...

; and her elder brother Naoyuki Agawa

Naoyuki Agawa

is a Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and author. He has been a professor of law at Keio University since 1999; and since 2009, he has served as the university's Vice President for International Collaboration and Education.-Early life:...

 is also a writer. Naoyuki is a former diplomat who, since 1999, has been a professor of law at Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

.

After graduation from Toyo Eiwa high school, Sawako entered Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

, studying Western historiography.

Career

Sawako Agawa started her career in Japanese television, first as a reporter, then as a news reader. As she made a name as an essayist—she has won two awards for her writing—she has gone on to appear on a variety of programs: talk shows, quiz programs, interview shows, and the like. She is a regular on Beat Takeshi's TV Tackle, a humorous political TV discussion show.

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