Haruto Kō
Introduction  was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for ''Ichijō no hikari'', as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.
English translations * "Black Market Blues", in ''Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection'', John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors, New York: Dembner Books, 1987..
References
Sources * Yoshikazu Kataoka, ''Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: 1956-1970'', Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai, 1972, page 107. *  J-Pitch article