Saburō Shiroyama (城山三郎, b. Eiichi Sugiura) (1927–2007) is a Japanese novelist. Shiroyama was born in

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, and studied economics at Hitotsubashi University. He later taught economics at Nagoya Gakuin University. Shiroyama trained as a pilot for the Japanese Navy, but never saw active service. He began his writing career after the end of World War II. Many of his works concern ''shoshamen'', high-level industry executives within Japanese corporate culture. He is known to have used real people, such as

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, as the basis for such characters, though he tried to avoid actually meeting or interviewing these subjects. In 1957 he won the Bungakukai New Writers award for ''Export'' (''Yushutsu''), which established the economic novel (''keizai shosetsu'') as a mainstream literary form in Japan. He also won the Naoki Prize for ''Sōkaiya Kinjō'' in 1958.

Major works

Some of Shiroyama's most notable works include: *''Export'' (1957) *''Made in Japan'' (1959) *''Price Slashing'' (1969)

References

1927 births 2007 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists {{Japan-lit-stub