Her most sustained and provocative work, Toshokan Sensō posits an Alternate History in which the Japanese government passes a law in 1989, the Media Betterment Act, authorizing the invasive censorship of all publications and broadcasts deemed to be "harmful".
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Two later collections are love comedies featuring Jieitai personnel, of which the stories in Kujira no Kare (coll 2007) seem closely enough related to the SDF series to qualify as an additional volume in the Checklist below. The first story, Shio no Machi: wish on my precious ( 2004) suggests escalating sea salination as a harbinger of a broader ecological crisis (see Ecology), although later volumes step back in favour of simpler espionage and skulduggery in the world of military prototypes and Technology.
Her first success, the SDF trilogy of Near Future Technothrillers, focuses on each of the three branches of Japan's Jieitai, the real-world term used for the army, air force and navy of a country that has constitutionally disavowed aggressive military action. Alongside sf and its slipstream, her output includes romances, love comedies and a series about a struggling theatre troupe. She swiftly established herself in the first decade of the twenty-first century as a guru for Japan's Millennials, tailoring fiction to meet the new market sector of "freeters" (drop-outs from the career path, preferring to take part-time jobs at subsistence wages in order to have more free time) and college commuters reading ebooks and electronic devices. (1972- ) Japanese author whose work, ostensibly in the Light Novel field, has acquired a weight and respect that has garnered high critical praise, including the Seiun Award, often being published in the increasingly rare hardback format.
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