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Shiroyama Saburo
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- He was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, in 1927. As a science and engineering student, he was eligible for a draft deferment, but he volunteered for the Navy, nonetheless. The war ended while he was still in training for the Special Attack Corps (kamikaze). He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1952. While working as a full-time lecturer at Aichi Gakugei University, he won the Naoki Prize in 1959 for his novel Sōkaiya Kinjō (Kinjo the Corporate Racketeer), which became a pioneer of economic novels. In 1963, he devoted himself to writing. He received countless awards and was regarded as a leading figure in the fields of social fiction, biographical fiction, and war fiction. He published numerous essays, non-fiction works, and collections of dialogues, alongside an extensive body of translated work. In 1978, the historical novel Ōgon no Hibi (Golden Days) was adapted into an NHK Taiga historical drama by the scriptwriters Shinichi Ichikawa and Shukei Nagasaka. While many of his original works were adapted for films and television, he also wrote television scripts, including Sōkaiya Kinjō (Kinjo the Corporate Racketeer, 1959, Radio Tokyo [now TBS]), Kabe (The Wall, 1959, CBC), Kisha wa Yoru Ku-ji ni Tsuku (The Train Arrives at 9:00 PM, 1962, NHK Nagoya), and Rakujitsu Moyu (The Setting Sun Burns, 1976, NET [now TV Asahi]). He died in 2007 at the age of 79.
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