Takashi Nagase was born in 1918 in Okayama City, Okayama, Japan. He is known for To End All Wars (2001) and Enemy, My Friend? (1995). He died on 21 June 2011 in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan.
Was an Imperial Translator in a POW camp in Thailand during the Japanese occupation of that country during World War II. He then became a Buddhist Priest.
