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Unno Juza

In this Japanese name, the surname is Unno.

Sano Shōichi (佐野さの 昌一しょういち, December 26, 1897 - May 17, 1949), know by his pen name Unno Jūza (海野うみの 十三じゅうざ), was a Japanese novelist who was the founding father of Japanese science fiction.

Unno Juza
BornSano Shōichi
(1897-12-26)December 26, 1897
Tokushima, Japan
DiedMay 17, 1949(1949-05-17) (aged 51)
Setagaya, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materWaseda University
Period1928 - 1949
GenreScience fiction (notably Crime fiction)
Children3

Biography

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Unno was born on December 26, 1897, in Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, to a family of medical doctors. He studied at the Waseda University.

In 1928 he debuted as a writer with the novel The case of the mysterious death in the electric bath (Denkifuro no kaishijiken).

During the Pacific War he wrote a great number of science-fiction novels, remaining in Tokyo throughout the air raids.[1] Japan's defeat in World War II was for him a hard blow, and Unno spent the last years in his life in a state of deep depression.

His scientific work was influenced by that of Nikola Tesla.

Unno died on May 17, 1949, aged 51.

Legacy

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Captain Jūzō Okita of Space Battleship Yamato was named as a tribute to Unno.

Works

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  • Aru Uchū-jin no Himitsu (ある宇宙塵うちゅうじんの秘密ひみつ)
  • Angō Onban Jiken (暗号あんごう音盤おんばん事件じけん)
  • Ikiteiru Chō (生いきている腸ちょう)
  • Uchū Joshū Dai Ichi-gō (宇宙うちゅう女囚じょしゅう第だい一いち号ごう)
  • Uchū Sentai (宇宙うちゅう戦隊せんたい)
  • Uchū Senpei (宇宙うちゅう尖兵せんぺい)
  • Uchū no Maigo (宇宙うちゅうの迷子まいご)
  • Unno Jūza Haisen Nikki (海野うみの十じゅう三さん敗戦はいせん日記にっき)
  • Ei Hondo Jōriku Sakusen no Zen'ya (英えい本土ほんど上陸じょうりく作戦さくせんの前夜ぜんや)
  • Osoroshiki Tsuya (恐こわしき通夜つや)
  • Gaikotsukan (骸骨がいこつ館かん)
  • Kaisei Gan (怪かい星ぼしガン)
  • Kaitei Toshi (海底かいてい都市とし)
  • Kagi kara Nukedashita Onna (鍵かぎから抜ぬけ出だした女おんな)
  • Kaban Rashikunai Kaban (鞄かばんらしくない鞄かばん)
  • Kayakusen (火薬かやく船せん)
  • Kifutsudō Jiken (鬼おに仏ふつ洞ほら事件じけん)
  • Kyōryū-tei no Bōken (恐竜きょうりゅう艇ていの冒険ぼうけん)
  • Kyōryū-tō (恐竜きょうりゅう島とう)
  • Kinzoku Ningen (金属きんぞく人間にんげん)
  • Kūchū Hyōryū Isshūkan (空中くうちゅう漂流ひょうりゅう一いち週間しゅうかん)
  • Gun'yōzame (軍用ぐんよう鮫さめ)
  • Kōun no Kuroko (幸運こううんの黒子くろこ)
  • Kokusai Satsujin-dan no Hōkai (国際こくさい殺人さつじん団だんの崩壊ほうかい)
  • Sankakkei no Kyōfu (三角形さんかっけいの恐怖きょうふ)
  • Sanju-nen Go no Sekai (三さん十じゅう年ねん後ごの世界せかい)
  • Sannin no Sōseiji (三さん人にんの双生児そうせいじ)
  • Jigoku Kaidō (地獄じごく街道かいどう)
  • Jūhachi-ji no Ongaku-yoku (十じゅう八はち時じの音楽おんがく浴よく)
  • Shōnen Tanteichō (少年しょうねん探偵たんてい長ちょう)
  • Jinzō Ningen Efu-shi (人造じんぞう人間にんげんエフ氏し)
  • Sekigaisen Otoko (赤外線せきがいせん男おとこ)
  • Sen-nen Go no Sekai (千せん年ねん後ごの世界せかい)
  • Dai Uchū Enseitai (大だい宇宙うちゅう遠征えんせい隊たい)
  • Dai Go Hyōgaki (第だい五ご氷河期ひょうがき)
  • Chikyū Yōsai (地球ちきゅう要塞ようさい)
  • Chikyū wo Nerau Mono (地球ちきゅうを狙ねらう者もの)
  • Chichūma (地中ちちゅう魔ま)
  • Chō-Ningen X-go (超ちょう人間にんげんX号ごう)
  • Tōmei Neko (透明とうめい猫ねこ)
  • Tokkyo Tawan Ningen Hōshiki (特許とっきょ多た腕うで人間にんげん方式ほうしき)
  • 2000 nen Sensō (二に、〇〇〇年ねん戦争せんそう)
  • Nō no Naka no Reijin (脳のうの中なかの麗人れいじん)
  • Hitotsubokan (一いち坪つぼ館かん)
  • Hyōgaki no Kaijin (氷河期ひょうがきの怪人かいじん)
  • Fushigikoku Tanken (ふしぎ国こく探検たんけん)
  • Fushū (俘囚ふしゅう)
  • Hōsō Sareta Yuigon (放送ほうそうされた遺言ゆいごん)
  • Maruamru Jū (○○獣しし)
  • Miezaru Teki (見みえざる敵てき)
  • Yūsei Shokumin Setsu (遊星ゆうせい植民しょくみん説せつ)
  • Yūrei-sen no Himitsu (幽霊ゆうれい船せんの秘密ひみつ)
  • Yohōshō Kokuji (予報よほう省しょう告示こくじ)
  • Reikon Dai Jū-gō no Himitsu (霊魂れいこん第だい十じゅう号ごうの秘密ひみつ)
  • Jinzō Ningen Satsugai Jiken (人造じんぞう人間にんげん殺害さつがい事件じけん)

Utei Tenku Series

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Utei Tenku Series (烏がらす啼天駆かシリーズ):

  • Kizoku wa Shiharau (奇き賊ぞくは支払しはらう)
  • Shinzō Tōnan (心臓しんぞう盗難とうなん)
  • Kizoku Higan (奇き賊ぞく悲願ひがん)
  • Angō no Yakuwari (暗号あんごうの役割やくわり)
  • Surikae Kaiga (すり替かえ怪かい画が)

Under alias of Oka Kyūjūrō

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  • Yukima (雪ゆき魔ま)
  • Chikyū Hakkyō Jiken (地球ちきゅう発狂はっきょう事件じけん)

English Translations

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  • Fast Forward Japan: Stories by the Founding Father of Japanese Science Fiction [includes: Eighteen O'Clock Music Bath (十じゅう八はち時じの音楽おんがく浴よく), The Theory of Planetary Colonization, The World in One Thousand Years, Four-Dimensional Man, Mysterious Spatial Rift, The Living Intestine, Crematoria, The Last Broadcast, Adventures of the Dinosaur-Craft] (ISBN 978-1737318217)
  • The Secret of the Cosmic Dust (ある宇宙塵うちゅうじんの秘密ひみつ). Translated by Till Weingärtner. The Irish Journal of Asian Studies Vol.7, 2021 (ISSN 2009-8448).

References

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  1. ^ Kawana, Sari (2008). Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452913735.
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