![]() In 1993 Shiba received the Government's Order of Cultural Merit. Shiba received the Naoki Prize for the 1959 novel Fukuro no Shiro ("The Castle of an Owl"). ![]() ![]() The magazine Shukan Asahi printed Shiba's articles about his travels within Japan in a series that ran for 1,146 installments. After World War II Shiba began writing historical novels. Shiba studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages (now the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University) and began his career as a journalist with the Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. Ryōtarō Shiba ( 司馬 遼太郎) born Teiichi Fukuda (福田 定一 Fukuda Teiichi, Aug– February 12, 1996) in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world.
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