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Yoshiki Hayama

Illustration — Yoshiki Hayama March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945 was a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement. He is perhaps best known for 海に生くる人々, Umi ni Ikuru Hitobito, a 1926 novel about the appalling labor conditions on a cargo ship plying the Japan trade lanes, and for short stories such as The Prostitute, an early example of proletarian literature in Japan. 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.

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Yoshiki Hayama

日本現代文学研究会『現代日本小説大系』第42巻（1949）より葉山嘉樹

河出書房社 撮影者不明 · 日本現代文学研究会『現代日本小説大系』第42巻（1949）より · Public domain

Born
1894 · Toyotsu.
Died
1945 · Manchuria.
Nationality
Japan
Occupation
writer · novelist
Education
Waseda University
Languages
Japanese

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Illustration — Yoshiki Hayama March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945 was a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement. He is perhaps best known for 海に生くる人々, Umi ni Ikuru Hitobito, a 1926 novel about the appalling labor conditions on a cargo ship plying the Japan trade lanes, and for short stories such as The Prostitute, an early example of proletarian literature in Japan. 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.

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