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Tomoji Abe

1903 - 1973

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Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二, Abe Tomoji; 26 June 1903 – 23 April 1973) was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature. This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on esthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Satō, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata). Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Shōwa period (1925–1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomoji Abe is the 5,053rd most popular writer (up from 5,950th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,545th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomoji Abe ranks 5,053 out of 7,302. Before him are Wendela Hebbe, Jean Vautrin, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Paul Louis Courier, René de Obaldia, and Kim Newman. After him are Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Yuriy Fedkovych, Jeffrey Eugenides, George Călinescu, and Han Yong-un.

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Among people born in 1903, Tomoji Abe ranks 276. Before him are Jeanette MacDonald, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Willi Forst, Hermann Volk, and Léon-Étienne Duval. After him are María Teresa León, Billie Dove, Lilly Scholz, Ali Sastroamidjojo, Gérard Delbeke, and Yashpal. Among people deceased in 1973, Tomoji Abe ranks 215. Before him are Ōten Shimokawa, Rodolphe Hiden, François Bonlieu, Washington Ortuño, Pixinguinha, and Cecil Kellaway. After him are Roland Dorgelès, M. Ageyev, Mahmud Taymur, Robert Armstrong, Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, and Albert Paris Gütersloh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tomoji Abe ranks 1,381 out of 6,245. Before him are Kei Nishikori (1989), Masanori Yusa (1915), Maho Shimizu (1960), Ukyo Katayama (1963), Katsuyoshi Shinto (1960), and Shinobu Sekine (1943). After him are Masi Oka (1974), Takashi Seki (1978), Takekazu Asaka (1952), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), and Yasuhito Suzuki (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Tomoji Abe ranks 102. Before him are Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Michitsuna's mother (935), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), and Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886). After him are Takeshi Shudo (1949), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), Takashi Tezuka (1960), Aya Kitō (1962), and Marie Kondo (1984).

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