(b. February 28, 1915 - d. October 26, 2006) was a [[Japan]]ese writer prominent in the postwar era. He is most readily associated with other writers of his generation, such as [[Sh?tar? Yasuoka]], who describe the effects of Japan's defeat in World War II on the country's psyche.
From an early age, Kojima read a wide variety of literature, both Japanese and Western, and such writers as Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoevsky had a strong influence on his work. In addition to his fiction, he had a long career as a professor of English literature at Meiji University in Tokyo, publishing criticism and making translations of many major American writers, including Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, and Bernard Malamud.