:Yoshiki Hayama

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{{short description|Japanese writer}}

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{{nihongo|Yoshiki Hayama|葉山 嘉樹|Hayama Yoshiki|March 12, 1894 – October 18, 1945}} was a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement.

He is perhaps best known for {{nihongo|Men 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 a cargo ship plying the Japan trade lanes, and for short stories such as {{nihongo|The Prostitute|淫売婦|Imbaifu|1925}}, an early example of proletarian literature in Japan.{{cite book|title=Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class|publisher=Routledge|date=2009|editor1-first=Ruth|editor1-last=Barraclough|editor2-first=Elyssa|editor2-last=Faison|chapter=The entanglements of sexual and industrial labour|first1=Ruth|last1=Barraclough|first2=Elyssa|last2=Faison|pages=1–9|isbn=9781135219826}}

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.{{cite journal|title=Japanese Literature and Politics in the 1930s|journal=The Journal of Japanese Studies|date=1976|first=Donald|last=Keene|volume=2|number=2|pages=225–248|doi=10.2307/132053|jstor=132053}}