Munetoshi Fukagawa (Japanese: 深川宗俊; real name 前畠雅俊 Masatoshi Maehata,

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; 1921–2008) was a Japanese poet. Fukagawa worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries where he witnessed the

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, a subject reflected in his poems. His poetry was translated abroad, including into Russian where some of the poems were set to music as a movement the ''Requiem'' of composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. As a foreman at the plant supervising Korean forced labour, he later in the 1970s began a movement to obtain compensation for conscripted labourers.Japan Times obituary
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