Editing Seiichi Morimura

{{Short description|Japanese novelist and author (1933–2023)}}
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{{nihongo|'''Seiichi Morimura'''|森村 誠一|Morimura Seiichi|January 2, 1933 – July 24, 2023}} was a Japanese novelist and author, born in [[Kumagaya]]. He is best known for the controversial ''{{ill|The Devil's Gluttony|ja|悪魔の飽食}}'' (悪魔の飽食) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by [[Unit 731]] of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] during the [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)|Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)]].<ref name="BG">{{cite news |title=The Devil's Feast... |newspaper=[[Boston Globe]] |date=April 20, 1982 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/666319181.html?dids=666319181:666319181&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+20,+1982&author=&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=%5B+The+Devil%27s+Feast...+%5D&pqatl=google |accessdate=December 7, 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Japanese public reliving war |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=March 15, 1982 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oeYNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lG0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4877,3430477&dq=seiichi-morimura&hl=en |accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref>

''The Devil's Gluttony'' was serialized in the ''[[Shimbun Akahata]]'' ([[Japanese Communist Party]]'s newspaper) in 1980,<ref name="BG" /> and subsequently published by Kobunsha (光文社), in two volumes in 1981 and 1982.<ref>{{cite book |title=Chemical and biological warfare: an annotated bibliography |last=Croddy |first=Eric |year=1997 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=18 |isbn=9780810832718 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tYJFT9O1ssgC&q=%22Seiichi+Morimura%22+Kobunsha&pg=PA18 |accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Textbook controversy and the production of public truth: Japanese education, nationalism, and Saburo Ienaga's court challenges |last=Nozaki |first=Yoshiko |year=2000 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3POAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Seiichi+Morimura%22+Kadokawa |accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref>

Morimura won the [[Edogawa Rampo Prize]] in 1969 for ''Death in the High-Rise'' (高層の死角).<ref>{{cite book |title=Handbook of Japanese popular culture |last=Gid Powers |first=Richard |author2=Hidetoshi Katō |author3=Bruce Stronach  |year=1989 |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=283 |isbn=9780313239229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tuRwAAAAMAAJ&q=Rampo |accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref>

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.

Seiichi Morimura died of pneumonia on July 24, 2023, at the age of 90.<ref>[https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20230724-125003/ Award-Winning Novelist Seiichi Morimura Dies at 90]</ref>

==Adaptation==
===Television===
* ''Fushoku no Kōzō'' (1977)
* ''Seishun no Shōmei'' (1978)
* ''[[Shūchakueki Series]]'' (1990-2022)
* ''Shikyaku Ukeoinin'' (2007, 2008)

=== Film ===
* ''Chō Kosō Hotel Satsuinjiken'' (1976)
* ''[[Proof of the Man]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Never Give Up (1978 film)|Never Give Up]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea]]'' (2007)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/252-seiichi-morimura J'Lit | Authors : Seiichi Morimura | Books from Japan] {{in lang|en}}

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[[Category:1933 births]]
[[Category:2023 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese male writers]]
[[Category:Japanese mystery writers]]
[[Category:Aoyama Gakuin University alumni]]
[[Category:Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners]]
[[Category:Edogawa Rampo Prize winners]]
[[Category:Writers from Saitama Prefecture]]
[[Category:People from Kumagaya]]


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