[1] During World War II she worked in a factory instead of going to college, like many other people her age at the time.
[2] Gō began writing again in 1968, after the Japanese Self Defense Force announced its new budget.
She even went to the Philippines in 1984 to conduct research for her 1986 story Midoriiro no Yami (緑色の闇), which was about a Japanese family in Manila during World War II.
[2] Gō became more politically active in the anti-war and peace movements, especially in 1982 when she wrote a piece in the Asahi Shinbun against the United States and Japan's military exercises near Mount Fuji.
[2] She also wrote about Japan's inconsistent and corrupt education system in some of her fiction and nonfiction works.