Kenji Nakagami

Known for: Writer
Date of birth: 1946. August 2.
Place of birth: Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Kenji Nakagami was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin. His works depict the intense life-experiences of men and women struggling to survive in a Burakumin community in western Japa...