Fusako Kushi

was a female writer from Okinawa. Her most notable work is Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (Horobiyuku ryukyu-onna no shuki, 滅びゆく琉球女の手記), which was received with hostility and outrage.

Biography Kushi Fusako was born in Shuri, Okinawa in 1903. She graduated from an all-girls high school in Okinawa and worked as an elementary school teacher before moving to Tokyo to pursue a career in writing at the age of 27. Although Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman was initially planned to be published as a serial novel, the backlash prevented the publication of the rest of her Memoir series. After the publication of the "Defense," Kushi retired from writing and never wrote again.