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Akiko Nogi (野木 亜紀子) is a Japanese screenwriter. She is known for her adapted plays for Jūhan Shuttai!, The Full-Time Wife Escapist, Library War, as well as original teleplays Unnatural, MIU404, etc. In 2020, Nogi won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Screenplay of the Year with her adapted work for The Voice of Sin.

Career
Nogi dreamed to become an actress at a young age, who later aimed to be a film director during her study at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. After graduation, she joined a documentary production house, working mainly on preproduction and interviews.

After 6 years of continuous enrolment, Nogi won the Grand Prize of 22nd Fuji Television Young Scenario Award in 2009 with her original work Sayonara, Robinson Kurûsô. The script was developed into a television film for Fuji TV the next year, marking her debut as a screenwriter at age 36.

After Sayonara, Nogi went on co-writing Lucky Seven and Omoni naitemasu for Fuji TV in 2012. In 2013, she wrote her first mini series script as a sole writer for TBS's The Flying Publicist, starring Yui Aragaki as the lead actress. Nogi later went on writing multiple critical acclaimed teleplays for TBS, including the multiple awarding-winning series We Married as a Job, also starring Yui Aragaki.

In 2018, Nogi wrote the forensic drama Unnatural, her first original work on primetime television. The drama was praised for its relatable storytelling on different social topics and meticulous deductions, awarding Nogi multiple awards, including the 69th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts and her second Best Screenplay Award from International Drama Festival in Tokyo. Nogi was also named Women of the Year by Vogue Japan in 2018.