Background
Mitsuse was born at Minami-Senju, Kita-Toshima District, Tokyo Prefecture in 1928.
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Mitsuse was born at Minami-Senju, Kita-Toshima District, Tokyo Prefecture in 1928.
He entered into Kawamura High school in 1948, and graduated from this school. He graduated from the Department of science of this university in 1953.
In the West he might be best known for manga-related works and the story The Sunset, 2217 Anno Domini which appeared in Frederik Pohl"s Best Science for 1972. His birth name was Chiba Kimio (千葉 喜美雄). After marriage he adopted his wife"s surname as his surname, taking the name Iizuka Kimio (飯塚 喜美雄).
He went to Tokyo in 1948.
He entered into various schools, that is, the Toyo University and the Meiji University. But he stayed there for several months.
He entered into the Department of agriculture in the Tokyo University of Education in 1949. Mitsuse joined Kagaku Sousaku Club where Takumi Shibano was operating as a publisher and an editor of the Fanzine Uchuu-jin.
He started publishing various short novels in the fanzine Uchuu-jin (宇宙塵) under the pen-name Mitsuse Ryu.
As an San Francisco novelist, he created the Space Chronicles series. His early long San Francisco novel Tasogare ni Kaeru (黄昏に還る) belongs to this series. Most of his short San Francisco stories constitute this series.
Rakuyou 2217 nen (落陽2217年, The Sunset, 2217 AD) is one of these stories.