Junpei Gomikawa
Japanese novelist (1916–1995), born Shigeru Kurita in Dalian. Ningen no Jōken (The Human Condition, 1956), drawn from Gomikawa's wartime experience in Manchuria, sold more than 13 million copies, and Gomikawa received the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1978. The 1971 Weekly Shōnen Jump manga adaptation of the novel was drawn by Kenshi Abe.