Famous People with Name Tatsuzo

Tatsuzo Ishikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tatsuzo Ishikawa: was a Japanese author. Ishikawa was the winner of the first Akutagawa Prize.In December 1937, Ishikawa was dispatched to Nanjing as a special reporter by the Chuo Koron publishing company. After landing in Shanghai, he arrived in Nanjing in January 1938, weeks after the fall of the city to the Japanese Imperial Army. Embedded in a squadron later connected to the Nanking Massacre, Ishikawa wrote a fictional account (Ikite iru Heitai ???????) of the atrocities suffered by Chinese civilians as well as the widespread pessimism of the Japanese soldiers. Due to its controversial subject matter, nearly one-fourth of its contents was censored even before it was scheduled to be serialized in Chuo Koron