Eisuke Nakazono Explained

, pen-name for Hideki Nakazono, was one of Japan's pioneer writers of spy fiction.

Nakazono was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, spent from 1938-1946 in China, and died of pneumonia at a hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. He won the 1992 Yomiuri Prize for Peking hanten kyūkan nite.

References

• Japanese Wikipedia article
• Pioneer of spy fiction Nakazono dies at 81
• Who's who in contemporary Japanese socialists, scholars and writers, Nihon Shakai Undō Kenkyūkai (Japanese Politics Economy Research Institute), 1970, page 401.
• Vox populi, vox dei, Volume 80, Asahi Shinbunsha, Ronsetsu Iinshitsu, (朝日新聞社, 論說委員室), 1990, page 11.