Seiichi Morimura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Seiichi Morimura

Japanese novelist and author

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1933

Place of Birth: Kumagaya, Kantō region, Japan

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Seiichi Morimura

  • Seiichi Morimura (?? ??, Morimura Seiichi, born January 2, 1933) is a Japanese novelist and author, born in Kumagaya.
  • He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony (?????) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Akahata (Japanese Communist Party's newspaper) in 1980, and subsequently published by Kobunsha (???), in two volumes in 1981 and 1982.
  • In the ensuing controversy, half of a photograph was discovered to be a fabrication, and Kobunsha subsequently withdrew the book.
  • A second edition was then published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983 with the controversial photograph removed.He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise.His short story "Devil of a Boy" appears translated into English in Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.

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