Background
Ichitaro Kokubun was born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan in 1911.
Ichitaro Kokubun was born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan in 1911.
Ichitaro Kokubun attended Yamagata Normal School.
After graduating from Yamagata Normal School Ichitaro Kokubun worked first as a teacher at an elementary school and then as a journalist. He was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of being a communist (1938).
Among his many works are "The Judged Schoolroom" and "The New Composition Schoolroom."
Ichitaro Kokubun was a member of New Japan Literature Society and of Juvenile Writers' Club.
