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Murakami Namiroku

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Murakami Namiroku
Born(1865-12-18)December 18, 1865
Sakai, Japan
DiedDecember 1, 1944(1944-12-01) (aged 78)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)Novelist, writer

Murakami Namiroku (村上浪六, December 18, 1865 – December 1, 1944) was a Japanese novelist and writer who specialized in popular fiction featuring chivalric gangsters.[1] He was the maternal grandfather of Otoya Yamaguchi, the teenager who assassinated Japan Socialist Party chairman Inejirō Asanuma in 1960.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 252.