Tairiki Konno

Background

Tairiki Konno was born in 1904. His family, a year after his birth, moved to Hokkaido where he was brought up in poverty.

Career

After finishing elementary school went to work in a newspaper office at Asahikawa and also at the post office. Later moving to Tokyo joined the Labor Artists’ League and became editor of a magazine titled "Bunsen" (Literary Warfront) in 1929. Later joined Japan Proletarian Writers' Association and edited two magazines "Battle Flag" and "Working Women" in 1931, and established himself as a proletarian writer of superior ability.

Considered to be dangerous because of his writings Tairiki Konno was arrested in 1932 but because he was suffering from tympanitis he was not sent to jail and he subsequently passed away at the Tokyo Municipal Sanatorium.

Membership

• Japan Proletarian Writers' Association , Japan