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was a Japanese novelist. Born in Nakijin, Okinawa, he went to local elementary and middle schools, and then to a high school in Kumamoto, where one of his class mates was Haruo Umezaki. He graduated from the School of English Literature, Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University. In 1940, he was conscripted and sent to Bougainville Island. Towards the end of the war, in May 1945, he surrendered to Australian forces and was sent to a POW camp. After being released, he did not return to Okinawa (which at the time was occupied by the Americans), but went to Tokyo instead, where he wrote novels while working in the offices of ''Shin Nihon Bungakukai'' ("Society of the Literature of the New Japan"), a leftist writers' association. In 1950, he published ''Kiyama ittō-hei to senkyōshi'' ("Private Kiyama and the Missionary") in the magazine "Shin Nihon Bungaku" and established himself as a writer. In 1953, he returned for a visit for the first time after the war to Okinawa, and started using Okinawan themes in his writings. For the novel ''Okinawashima'' which was published in installments in ''Shin Nihon Bungaku'' ("New Japanese Literature") in 1956 he was awarded the "Mainichi Publications Literary Award".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=霜多正次氏死去 作家 )〕 In 1957, with fellow writers Tatsukichi Nishino, Kim Tal-su and Sei Kubota, he started the so-called ''Riarizumu Kenkyukai'' ("Realism Research Association"). After having some ideological disputes (among others about the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, he siding with the Japanese Communist Party views) with other executives of the Society at a conference in 1964, and after his relations soured with Teruo Takei, the de facto leader of the Society, and the people around him, he was expelled from the Society of the Literature of the New Japan. When the ''Nippon minshushugi bungaku domei'' ("Japanese Democratic Literary Alliance") was established in 1965, he was named vice-chairman. In 1971, he was awarded the Takiji-Yuriko Award for ''Akemodoro''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=県出身作家、霜多正次氏が死去/米軍支配下の「沖縄島」連載 )〕 He died of pneumonia in Musashino, Tokyo, on April 16, 2003.〔 == Awards == * ''Mainichi Shuppan Bungaku Sho'' for ''Okinawashima'' (1956) * Takiji-Yuriko Award for ''Akemodoro'' (1971) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seiji Shimota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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