An Osaka University alumni with a degree in economics, Mayumura wrote short novels while working as a copywriter and submitted them to contests in literary magazines.
Taku Mayumura died of aspiration pneumonia at a hospital in Osaka on November 3.
In 1961, he won second place in S-F Magazine’s Kuusou Kagaku Shousetsu Contest (Science Fiction Contest) for his story Kakyuu Idea-man and made his prof…
Mayumura was born as Takuji Murakami in Osaka city in 1934.