Inoue Mitsuharu

Inoue Mitsuharu ( Japanese 井上 光 晴 ; born May 15, 1926 in Lüshunkou (Port Arthur); † May 30, 1992 ) was a Japanese writer.

Inoue joined the Japanese Communist Party after World War II and published in Shin Nihon Bungaku magazine . After the publication of the critical novel Kakarezaru isshō , he was expelled from the party in 1950. In 1956 he founded the magazine Gendai Hihyoo , in which he published the serial novel Kyokō no kuren (as a book in 1960). In this and in the work Guadarukanaru senshishū (1958) he reflected on life in Japan during the Second World War. In later works he dealt with topics such as the Japanese war crimes in World War II and the consequences of the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 389 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• John Scott Miller: Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7 , p. 38 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Kenzaburo Oe: The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath . New edition. Grove Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-8021-5184-1 , pp. 204-205 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Inoue is the family name, Mitsuharu the first name.