Ryōtarō Shiba - Ryōtarō Shiba (
司馬 遼太郎) born Teiichi Fukuda (福田 定一 Fukuda Teiichi, August 7, 1923 – February 12, 1996) in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world.Shiba studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages (now the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University) and began his career as a journalist with the Sankei Shimbun, one of Japans major newspapers. After World War II Shiba began writing historical novels. The magazine Shukan Asahi printed Shibas articles about his travels within Japan in a series that ran for 1,146 installme Ryōtarō Shiba (
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