Osamu Dazai

Dazai Osamu (Japanese: Dazai Osamu/Dazai Osamu, Romanized: Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 - June 13, 1948), whose real name was Tsushima Shuji (tsushima Xiuji/Tsushima Shuji, Tsushima Shūji, a Japanese scoundrel novelist, was born in Aomori Prefecture. Dazai Osamu had wanted to become a writer since he was a student. At the age of 21, he attempted suicide by throwing himself into the sea with a waitress at a Ginza cafe. The work "Retrograde" in the book "Late Years" published in 1936 was listed as a candidate for the first Akutagawa Prize. After getting married, he wrote works such as "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" and "Setting Sun" and became a popular contemporary writer. Late at night on June 13, 1948, he and his female reader and girlfriend Yamazaki Furei, who admired him, jumped into the Tamagawa River and committed suicide at the age of 38. He left behind works such as "Disqualification in the World".