Takiji Kobayashi

Takiji Kobayashi was born on 13 October 1903 in Akita Prefecture; his family moved to Otaru, in Hokkaidō, when he was small. Trained at the Otaru higher commercial school, where he began to write, he joined the Hokkaidō Takushoku Bank, which dismissed him, and moved to Tokyo in 1930. A writer of the proletarian movement and an activist of the Communist Party, then banned, he was arrested by the political police and died under torture on 20 February 1933.

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• NovelThe Crab Cannery Ship蟹工船Takiji Kobayashi · 1929LiteraturePublic domain