was a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement.
He is perhaps best known for, a 1926 novel about the appalling labor conditions on a cargo ship plying the Japan trade lanes, and for short stories such as, an early example of proletarian literature in Japan.[1]
He spent time in jail due to his involvement with the labor movement, but later turned away from Marxism and became an enthusiastic supporter of Japanese imperialism.[2]