Seiichi Morimura
Seiichi Morimura is a Japanese novelist and author, born in Kumagaya. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony , which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Akahata in 1980, and subsequently published by Kobunsha, in two volumes in 1981 and 1982. In the ensuing controversy, half of a photograph was discovered to be a fabrication, and Kobunsha subsequently withdrew the book. A second edition was then published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983 with the controversial photograph removed.
He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise.
His short story "Devil of a Boy" appears translated into English in Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.
