Shinpei Kusano

Later, he became an advisor to the propaganda department of the Wang Zhaoming government in the Japanese puppet regime of Nanjing.

Born on May 12, 1903, in Kami-Ogawa Village, Ishiki District, Fukushima Prefecture, the second son of his father Kaoru Kusano and mother Tomeyo.

[1] In November 1919, he dropped out of Banjo Junior High School in the 4th grade and moved to Tokyo the following month, living with her father, stepmother, and younger siblings in a rented house in Shirayama-ue, Koishikawa.

While working at the Guangdong Industrial Company, he studied English at the YMCA, and in September he entered Lingnan University in Guangzhou.

[2] In March 1923, he self-published "Horn of the Waste Garden," a collection of poems (the place of publication was Japan, as he was temporarily back in the country at the time).

[2] In September, he returned to Guangzhou from February to April 1924, he published mimeograph poems "Sky and Telephone Pole In June.

[2] In July, he published a mimeograph collection of poems, "Moon Eclipse and Fireworks" while returning home for summer vacation; in September, he entered the final course at Lingnan University and also began teaching a newly established Japanese course.

[5] In January 1931, he published "Amerika proletaria shishu" (American Proletarian Poetry Anthology) with other poets;[6] in February, he moved to Tokyo and opened a yakitori stall in Azabu in May (closed the following May);[6] in September, he published a mimeograph collection of poems, "Tomorrow is the Weather"; in 1932, He joined 'Jitsugyo no Sekai-sha', where he was in charge of editing and proofreading.

In October, the first volume of "The Complete Works of Kenji Miyazawa" (Bunpodo Shoten), of which Shinpei was co-responsible editor, was published.

In February 1939, he held a party to commemorate the publication of "Frogs," which was attended by Tetsuzo Tanikawa, Sakutaro Hagiwara, and others.

He attended the Greater East Asia Literature Convention (Imperial Theater) as a representative of the Republic of China (Wang Zhoaming's regime), and when Wang Zhoaming's regime declared war on Britain and the United States in 1943, he published a poem entitled "Declaration of War" in the "Yomiuri Shimbun".

[12] In June, he published a collection of poems, "Taiyo wa higashi kara aruki" (The Sun Rises in the East).

[14][15] In June 1986, he published his last collection of poems, "Ji-Quan et al." In August, he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized, but was released in December.

Shinpei Kusano's birthplace in Iwaki, Fukushima (2011)
The Shinpei Kusano Memorial Centre in Iwaki City (2011)