Yoshiki Hayama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yoshiki Hayama

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1894

Place of Birth: Toyotsu, Japan

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1945

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Yoshiki Hayama (?? ??, Hayama Yoshiki, March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945) was a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement.
He is perhaps best known for Men Who Live on the Sea (??????? , 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 (???, Imbaifu, 1925), 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.