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He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture.
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Shoson Nagahara
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He is known for writing about Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, in the Japanese language, for Japanese readers. His birth name was Hideaki Nagahara. Shoson Nagahara was his pen name.
He was age 17 when he arrived in Seattle, Washington in the summer of 1918.
In 1920, he was living in a boarding house in Los Los Angeles lieutenant is uncertain what happened to him after 1928.
His first novel, Lament in the Night, appeared in 1925. Its protagonist was a day laborer, Ishikawa Sazuko, seeking work in Los Los Angeles
The work has been called a "naturalist noir masterpiece", and was reviewed in "the regional Japanese-language press" Shōson went on to produce a serial novel, under the sponsorship of Rafu Shimpo.
lieutenant appeared from November 1925 to May 1926.
