{{Short description|Japanese author and yakuza (1937–2019)}} {{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|安部 譲二|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox writer | name = George Abe | image = | image_size = | caption = | alt = | native_name = 安部 譲二 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = {{nihongo|Naoya Abe|安部 直也}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|05|17}} | birth_place = Tokyo, Empire of Japan (Currently Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|09|02|1937|05|17}} | death_place = | occupation = Author | alias = | signature = <!-- very optional --> | signature_alt = | notable_works = ''Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin'' | website = {{url|http://www.abegeorge.net/}} }}
{{nihongo|'''Naoya Abe'''|安部 直也|Abe Naoya|May 17, 1937<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:ABE, George |url=http://www.youngsunday.com/rensai/sakka/abe.html |website=Weekly Young Sunday |publisher=Shogakukan |accessdate=September 12, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220232423/http://www.youngsunday.com/rensai/sakka/abe.html |archivedate=February 20, 2008 |language=ja}}</ref> – September 2, 2019|lead=yes}}, known by his pen name {{nihongo|'''George Abe'''|安部 譲二|Abe Jōji}}, was a Japanese author and former yakuza. Outside Japan, he is best known for writing the manga series ''Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin'' in collaboration with artist Masasumi Kakizaki. As a teenager, Abe became a member of the Ando-gumi yakuza family, and was later recruited by the Koganei-ikka.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:安部譲二さん死去 「塀の中の懲りない面々」 |url=https://www.sankei.com/life/news/190908/lif1909080021-n1.html |website=Sankei Shimbun |accessdate=October 13, 2020 |language=ja |date=September 8, 2019}}</ref> In 1986, after leaving the yakuza life, he wrote a novel about his time in Fuchū Prison titled {{nihongo|''Hei no Naka no Korinai Menmen''|塀の中の懲りない面々}}, which became a bestseller and was adapted into a film.<ref name="asahi">{{cite web |script-title=ja:作家の安部譲二さん死去 「塀の中の懲りない面々」 |url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM983CXRM98UCLV001.html |website=The Asahi Shimbun |accessdate=September 12, 2020 |language=ja |date=September 8, 2019 |archive-date=September 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908020011/https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM983CXRM98UCLV001.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Abe died on September 2, 2019, from pneumonia, aged 82.<ref name="asahi"/>
Abe worked as a flight attendant for Japan Airlines from 1961 to 1965.<ref name="postseven20230407">{{Cite web|url= https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20230407_1857779.html?DETAIL |title= 同期入社だった作家・安部譲二が「私にだけラブレターをくれなかった」理由【力道山未亡人～元日航CA・田中敬子の数奇な半生～＃20】 |website= NEWSポストセブン |date= 2023-04-07 |accessdate= 2025-05-06 }}</ref> He was the model for Jōji Miyagi, the main character in Yukio Mishima's entertainment romance novel ''Fukuzatsuna Kare'' (複雑な彼 ''That Complicated Guy'') published in 1966.<ref name="jiten">杉本和弘「複雑な彼」（『三島由紀夫事典』勉誠出版, 2000, pp. 310-312）</ref><ref name="shueisha">安部譲二「解説」（文庫版『複雑な彼』集英社文庫, 1987）</ref> Abe's pen name "Jōji" was adapted from the character in the novel.<ref name="abejo">安部譲二「解説」（文庫版『複雑な彼』角川文庫, 2009, pp. 382-388）</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.abegeorge.net/}} * {{ann|people|id=52476}}
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