Umi ni Ikuru Hitobito (海に生くる人々, "Those Who Live on the Sea") is a 1926 novel by Japanese author Yoshiki Hayama.
Umi ni Ikuru Hitobito, whose name translates to "Those Who Live on the Sea",[1] was written by Yoshiki Hayama[2] and published in 1926.
[3] The story takes place in 1914, when the outbreak of war in Europe brings great wealth to Japan.
[3] The captain is indifferent to the suffering of both his own men and those on a sinking ship nearby, and cares only for his own pleasures be they at home or at a hot spring in Muroran with a female companion.
"[5] Literary historian and critic Donald Keene called the work Hayama's "major contribution to the proletarian literature movement".