a position he held for many years. Niwa encouraged fellow members to play golf, organised health insurance, and bought land for a writers' cemetery. He won the 19th Yomiuri Prize and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1977. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1986. He was married twice and had one son and one daughter, Keiko Honda, who described his decline in Days of Care (Japanese Kaigo no hibi, 1997). He died of pneumonia in 2005. References « L’âge des méchancetés » de NIWA Fumio: A review of The Hateful Age in French. Niwa, Collected Short Stories: Sweetfish, Mother's Day, Wife, et al. (Ayu, Haha no hi, Tsuma) Kodansha, pub. in 2006. The complete bibliography of the author is at the end of the book (in Japanese). References External links Fumio Niwa Memorial Lab (Japanese) 20th-century Japanese novelists Japanese centenarians 1904 births 2005 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in Japan Yomiuri Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Culture Waseda University alumni Writers from Mie Prefecture Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist priests Men centenarians 20th-century Buddhist monks Presidents of the Japan Writers’ Association