Sugako Hashida was born on May 10, 1925 in Seoul, Korea. She was a writer, known for The Bells of Nagasaki (1950), Wataru seken wa oni bakari (1990) and When the Cookie Crumbles (1967). She was married to Iwasaki Yoshikazu. She died on April 4, 2021 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan.