bombings of the Tokyo region toward the end of World War II and developed pacifist principles.
He won the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize for his mystery fiction in 1969 and the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1973.īorn in 1933 in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, Morimura survived harsh U.S. Morimura began contributing articles to magazines while working in hotels. Unit 731 is also believed to have performed vivisections and frozen prisoners to death in tests of endurance.
“Akuma no Hoshoku,” or “The Devil’s Gluttony,” which began as a newspaper series in 1981, became a bestseller and created a sensation across the country over atrocities committed by Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731 in China.įrom its base in Japanese-controlled Harbin in China, Unit 731 and related units injected war prisoners with typhus, cholera and other diseases as research into germ warfare, according to historians and former unit members. His official website and publisher, Kadokawa, said Morimura died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. TOKYO (AP) - Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War II, died Monday.
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