Munetoshi Fukugawa

Munetoshi Fukagawa (Japanese: 深川宗俊; real name 前畠雅俊 Masatoshi Maehata, Hiroshima, 1921-2008) was a Japanese poet.^[1] Fukagawa worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries where he witnessed the Hiroshima bombing, 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.^[2]

References

1. 海に消えた被爆朝鮮人徴用工: 鎮魂の海峡 Munetoshi Fukagawa - 1992- Page 307 "鎮魂の海峡 Munetoshi Fukagawa. 1921 年広島県に生まれる。本名,前畠雅俊。 1945 年 8 月 6 日,原爆被爆。当時,三菱重工業広島機械製作所で,朝鮮人徴用工の指導員として勤務。戦後,広島文学サークル協議会,恃三吉を中心とする『われらの詩の会』の ..."
2. Japan Times obituary