Tatsuhiro Ôshiro is an Okinawan novelist and playwright. He was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1967 for his novella of the same year, The Cocktail Party, which has been adapted for the stage and made into a film. His writings have been noted for making Okinawan culture and history accessible to a mainland Japanese readership, while his more popular works have been critically praised for "offering an acute perspective on the psychological and moral implications of war and military occupation." He has received a Medal of Honor and the Order of the Rising Sun, and been named a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan. His numerous awards include the Taiko Hirabayashi Prize and the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize.