'731 Unit Human Experimentation Expos?' Japanese Mystery Novelist Morimura Seiichi Passes Away

Seiichi Morimura (森村誠一), a famous Japanese mystery novelist, passed away on the 24th due to an illness. He was 90 years old.

Seiichi Morimura, a Japanese social mystery novelist who passed away on the 24th due to an illness. [Tokyo Kyodo=Yonhap News]

Kyodo News and Yomiuri Shimbun reported that he died while being treated for pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo.

Born in 1933 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, he graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Drawing on his experience working at hotels in Tokyo and Osaka, he produced various works, many of which were translated into Korean.

He received the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for his work High-Rise Blind Spot, which reflects his hotel work experience, and later wrote representative works such as Proof of the Man and Proof of the Wild.

Proof of the Man was also adapted into the Korean TV drama Royal Family.

He was classified as a "social" mystery novelist, presenting many works that delve into the alienation and nihilism of modern society.

In addition to mystery novels, he made a significant impact by publishing the nonfiction work Devil’s Feast, which deals with the biological experiments conducted by the Japanese Kwantung Army’s Unit 731 in China.

In 2009, he led a civic choir to visit Nogeun-ri in Hwanggan-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungbuk, the site where U.S. forces massacred civilians during the Korean War.

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