FOURTH ICE PERIOD /Per. from Japanese C. Berezhkova; Artist E. Galinsky . - M. : Publishing house of the Central Committee of the Komsomol "Young Guard", 1965. 240 s. — (Science Fiction Library, in 15 volumes, t.) 2). — Circulation 215,000 copies. — Price 59 kopecks. ::::::A progressive Japanese writer was born in Tokyo in 1924. Childhood and youth spent in Mukden . In 1948 he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Tokyo. I started writing as a student[edit] Almost immediately joined the literary group "Sengoh" ("post-war group"), uniting writers who performed with anti-war, anti-imperialist works. Abe's works have been repeatedly awarded Japan's highest literary awards. The Japanese reader is well aware of his science fiction stories and novels “The Crime of Mr. Karuma”, “Invention of P-62”, “Ghosts Live Here”, “The 4th Ice Age”, “Sand Woman” . In 1965, his new fantasy novel “Alien Face” was published. Abe stands for friendship and close rapprochement between the Soviet and Japanese peoples Last year he visited our country. :::::::