Masuji Ibuse was a Japanese novelist and playwright. He is best remembered as the author of "The Human Condition" (1944), a novel about the horrors of war, and as a playwright for his "Iwaya Sadao" trilogy, which was adapted for film as "No Regrets for Our Youth". Ibuse was also known as a film critic. He worked as a journalist during the 1930s, and became a novelist at age 56, just after World War II
The Human Condition won the Naoki Prize, which it shared with Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility (1957). He died at age 65 on March 2, 1971.
..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.Masuji Ibuse
I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.Masuji Ibuse
