Seiichi Morimura

Seiichi Morimura (森村 誠一, Morimura Seiichi; January 2, 1933 – July 24, 2023) was a Japanese novelist and author, born in Kumagaya. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony [ja] (悪魔の飽食) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).^[1][2]

Seiichi Morimura
Native name	森村 誠
Born	(1933-01-02)January 2, 1933 Kumagaya
Died	July 24, 2023(2023-07-24) (aged 90)
Notable works	The Devil's Gluttony [ja]
Notable awards	Edogawa Rampo Prize (1969)

The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Shimbun Akahata (Japanese Communist Party's newspaper) in 1980,^[1] and subsequently published by Kobunsha (光文社), in two volumes in 1981 and 1982.^[3] 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.^[4]

Morimura won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise (高層の死角).^[5]

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.

Seiichi Morimura died of pneumonia on July 24, 2023, at the age of 90.^[6][7]

Adaptation

Television

• Fushoku no Kōzō (1977)
• Seishun no Shōmei (1978)
• Shūchakueki Series (1990-2022)
• Shikyaku Ukeoinin (2007, 2008)

Film

• Chō Kosō Hotel Satsuinjiken (1976)
• Proof of the Man (1977)
• Never Give Up (1978)
• Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)