Nejime Shōichi


Nejime Shōichi is a Japanese poet and novelist born on June 16, 1948. He dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University while he was majoring in economics.

Biography

While in Aoyama, he ran a business known as Nejime Mingeiten, a folk craft store. He also was a member of a grass lot baseball team known as the "Fouls".
In 1989, he won the Naoki Prize. In 1997, he became the first champion of "Poetry Boxing".
In 2001, he was in charge of the NHK panel "Words of Power, Poems of Power"

Novels