Saburo Shiyoyama

Saburō Shiyoyama (b. Eiichi Sugiura) (1927-2007) is a Japanese novelist.

Shiyoyama was born in Aichi Prefecture, and studied economics at Hitotsubashi University. He later taught economics at Nagoya Gakuin University. Shiyoyama trained as a pilot for the Japanese Navy, but never saw active service. He began his writing career after the end of World War II.

Many of his works concern shoshamen, high-level industry executives within Japanese corporate culture. He is known to have used real people, such as Sahashi Shigeru, as the basis for such characters, though he tried to avoid actually meeting or interviewing these subjects.

In 1957 he won the Bungakkai New Writers award for Export (Yushutsu), which established the economic novel (keizai shosetsu) as a mainstream literary form in Japan.