Yoshiki Hayama (葉山 嘉樹,Hayama Yoshiki; March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945) was a Japanese author associated with the Japaneseproletarian literature movement.
He is perhaps best known forMen Who Live on the Sea (海に生くる人々,Umi ni Ikuru Hitobito), a 1926 novel about the appalling labor conditions on acargo ship plying the Japan trade lanes, and for short stories such asThe Prostitute (淫売婦,Imbaifu; 1925), an early example of proletarian literature in Japan.[1]
He spent time in jail due to his involvement with the labor movement, but later turned away from Marxism and became an enthusiastic supporter of Japanese imperialism.[2]
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