Fusaji Yamamura

January 29, 1908 (age 77)

Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

From 1938 to the end of the war he worked at the Research Department of the South Manchurian Railway Company. Appointed instructor of Waseda University (1946). During the above period defying the decpening reactionary trend, continued to introduce latest development of Soviet literature into newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of the war, forced to stop writing, but following the end of the war started active reintroduction of Soviet literature through the Japan Democratic Cultural League. His main aim is the study of socialistic realism, particularly that of Gorki. Author of "A Notebook of Soviet Literature" and "Gorki." Also translated "History of Russian Literature" by Gorki.