Fusako Yanase

Fusako Yanase is an award-winning author and former chair of the certified NPO, Association for Aid and Relief, Japan. She holds a master's degree from the Graduate School of Cultural Policy at Aoyama Gakuin University. In 1979, she was involved in the preparatory work to establish the Association to Aid Indochinese Refugees (now AAR Japan), and the following year, at the age of 30, she became its Secretary-General. A pioneer in refugee support in Japan for nearly 50 years, her many publications include Is Japan Unwelcoming to Refugees? (Keio University Press, December 2024) and the award-winning children's book Not Mines, but Flowers - A Plea from Sunny (illustrated by Yoh Shomei, Jiyu Kokuminsha), which received the Japan Picture Book Readers' Award.