Takiji Kobayashi

“ His iron will resisted all their torture until unconsciousness and then death relieved him. The police took the dead body to a hospital and got a false death certificate saying the doctor had seen him before death and that he was suffering from heart trouble.
The relatives were then called and the body was handed over to them. His fine old mother of sixty, Oseisan, was in sympathy with his ideas and asked that he be given, not a religious funeral, but a workers’ one. When she saw the body she turned on the police and said that never would she believe he had died a natural death. ”

“ Those stories include: The Fifteenth of March, 1928, For the Sake of the Citizens (these three are included in this book) , Absentee Landlords, Factory Cells, The Organizer, Solitary Confinement, The Village of Numajiri, People of the District and the posthumous Age of Transformation. ”