Takami Jun is a Japanese novelist born in Mikuni-cho, Sakai-gun , Fukui Prefecture . Illegitimate child 0f Sakamoto Sannosuke (bureaucrat, politician, and poet). In 1908, he moved to Tokyo with his mother. He grew up in a sword shop near his father’s mansion in Azabu Iikura , Tokyo, without ever meeting him even once. He was married very shortly, with women named Aiko, but when he was arrested because of broking the “Peace Preservation Law “, she flew with another man. Then he remarried to Akiko Mizutani.
He died due to esophageal cancer. He also has one illegitimate child, Kyoko Takami (aka Stephen Kyoko) who is talent and essayist.