| Jirō Nitta 新田 次郎 | |
| Birth Name: | Hiroto Fujiwara 藤原 寛人 |
| Birth Date: | 6 June 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan |
| Death Place: | Musashino, Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Children: | Masahiko Fujiwara (son) |
| Relatives: | Sakuhei Fujiwara (uncle) |
| Awards: | Naoki Prize Medal with Purple Ribbon Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class |
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is the pen name of popular Japanese historical novelist . He was born in an area that is now part of the city of Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.[1]
His uncle was the famed meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwara and his son is mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara. After retiring from the Japan Meteorological Agency, he began writing professionally. Originally a meteorologist, he wrote mainly on themes connected with mountains.
At least three of his documentary novels have been translated into English. is based on an incident in 1902 in the Hakkōda Mountains. is about the adventures of Frank Yasuda.
deals with the Meiji era entrepreneur, from northern Miyagi prefecture, who went to Canada in 1896 to export salmon roe back to Japan. In 1906, he chartered the schooner Suianmaru to smuggle 82 fellow villagers out of Japan and into Canada. They were apprehended and arrested on Vancouver Island without passports but allowed to stay in Canada thanks to negotiations by (aka Fred Yoshy) of the Japanese consulate in Vancouver.
His 1973 two-volume novel has been adapted into a manga series of the same title in which he is credited as writer.