Background
Noguchi was born in Kōjimachi, Tokyo, and studied at Keio University.
野口 富士男
Noguchi was born in Kōjimachi, Tokyo, and studied at Keio University.
Keio University.
His real name was Fujio Hirai. His first published work was a novel about the pathos in the lives of common people, Kaze no keifu ("Genealogy of the Wind", 1940). In the post-World World War II period, he turned works biography and literary history, with Tokuda Shusei den ("Biography of Tokuda Shusei", 1965) about the noted author
This was followed by Kurai yoru no watashi ("Myself on a Dark Night", 1969), describing the literary world in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1981 he was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize, and in 1986, he published Kanshokuteki Shōwa bundan shi ("An Impressionistic History of Shōwa Literature").