was a Japanese journalist for ''

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'' and author.

Career

Iiboshi graduated from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (now

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) and from Faculty of Law,

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. He was the vice copy chief of the social news division of the national Japanese newspaper ''

Yomiuri Shimbun The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ...

.'' When

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, the president of Tōei Film Studio, got a manuscript from the

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Kōzō Minō (), he asked Iiboshi to rewrite it as a novel. After that, Iiboshi wrote several series of novels about yakuza conflicts and the dark side of Japanese politics.

Main works

*''Jingi naki Tatakai'' (''

Battles Without Honor and Humanity , also known in the West as ''The Yakuza Papers'', is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life ya ...

'') series *''Nihon no Don'' (''Japan's Don'') series

Notes

Resources

''Asahi'' Newspaper. ''Gendai Nihon Jinbutsu Jiten'' (Who's Who Today). 1990. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Iiboshi, Koichi Japanese journalists Japanese crime fiction writers Kyoto University alumni Kagoshima University alumni 1927 births 1996 deaths 20th-century journalists