Yoshihiro Nitta (新田佳浩, Nitta Yoshihiro; born 8 July 1980) is a Japanese Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete.…Yoshihiro Nitta (新田佳浩, Nitta Yoshihiro; born 8 July 1980) is a Japanese Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete. He is regarded as one of the most experienced Japanese Paralympic competitors as he went onto represent Japan at the Paralympics in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022. Yoshihiro Nitta has won 4 medals in his Paralympic career, including 2 gold medals at the 2010 Winter Paralympics. He achieved his 4th Paralympic medal in his career and the first medal since the 2010 Winter Paralympics after claiming a silver medal in the men's 1.5km sprint classic standing cross-country skiing event during the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Atsuko Asano (Japanese: あさの あつこ, Hepburn: Asano Atsuko; born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese writer. She…Atsuko Asano (Japanese: あさの あつこ, Hepburn: Asano Atsuko; born 1954 in Okayama Prefecture) is a Japanese writer. She wrote the children's novel series Telepathy Shōjo Ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics. She started writing children's novels when she was in college. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with the Bachelor of Letters degree. After that, she worked as a temporary teacher of the elementary school in Okayama for two years. She published Hotarukan monogatari as her first novel in 1991. She is married to a dentist and they have two sons and a daughter. Asano received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for the book series Battery, which has been adapted into a film. The same series won the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. Her work frequently appears in literary magazines and she has also been featured in the Mainichi Shimbun. She is a supporter of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP).