[3] A graduate from Keio University, Hotta already published poems and essays in the literary journal Hihyō during his student years.

[4] He experienced the end of the Pacific War in Shanghai, where he stayed for two years to write for the Chinese Nationalist Party before returning to Japan in 1947.

[2] Later, he turned his attention also to International relationships and history, attending meetings of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association and writing books about historic figures like Goya, Montaigne and François de La Rochefoucauld.

[1][6][7] Hiroba no kodoku was adapted into a film in 1953, written by Katsuhito Inomata and directed by and starring Shin Saburi.

[8] Together with Shin'ichirō Nakamura and Takehiko Fukunaga, Hotta wrote the original story which was later adapted into the kaiju film Mothra, first published in Asahi Shimbun.