Hello, Do We Have Any Information About What Happened With Dazai's Family After His Death. Your Blog

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Dazai’s wife, Tsushima Michiko, was still involved in what happened to Dazai’s works. I have read a lot of translator’s notes who said that they got permission from Michiko to translate her late-husband’s works into English. After her husband’s death, Michiko was in charge of the family. They moved around a bit, in 1964 their son Masaki dies of pneumonia at 15 years old leaving only Michiko and their two daughters Yūko and Sonoko. Michiko also wrote a memorandum of Dazai that goes into detail about their life together. Michiko lived to be 85 years old.

Tsushima Yūko, Dazai’s daughter, became a writer like her father. She wrote fiction, essays, and literary criticisms (which was quite common in Japan). She went to collage in Chōfu, Tokyo, and while attending she published her first story. She won several literary prizes: “In 1972 her story “Pregnant with a Fox” (“Kitsune wo haramu”) was a runner-up for the Akutagawa Prize. She was awarded the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature in 1977 and the first annual Noma Prize for New Writers in 1979. In 1983 she was awarded the Kawabata Prize for her short story “The Silent Traders” (“Danmari ichi”) and in 1986 she won the Yomiuri Prize for her novel Driven by the Light of the Night (Yoru no hikari ni owarete). In 1998 she was awarded the 34th Tanizaki Prize and the 51st Noma Prize for her novel Mountain of Fire: Account Of A Wild Monkey (Hi no yama – yamazaruki)” (source).