Ryōtarō Shiba (Osaka, 7 of August of 1923 - 12 of February of 1996) was a Japanese novelist, pseudonym with which Teiichi Fukuda is known. Shiba is the name by which the writer and journalist Teiichi Fukuda is known. Licensed in Mongolian School of Foreign Languages ​​of Osaka (now Osaka Foreign Studies University) in Japan and journalist of Sankei Shimbun newspaper. His works have influenced society and have helped spread the image of his country abroad, a country that has been little known in the West until recently. In a country like Japan, which is among the world's best sellers of newspapers, books and comics, it is one of the most widely read. For Shiba, the most important of his novels and History itself are the people who form it, since anyone with the courage, spirit and pride to belong to Humanity could have a place in history, in his own words. The novels of Shiba Ryōtarō, move the reader to an unknown Japan that his pen rescued even from the oblivion of his own people. Always against the theory of dialectical materialism to interpret history, in which there is no duality "hero-villains", Shiba shows that the reader has to form a proper judgment of history without considering his work as a point of reference.