Meiji Gakuin University
Kō was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto and graduated from the Department of English Literature of Meiji Gakuin University. He was arrested as a political offender during World War II, and after the war started to write I novels. Kō received the 1969 Yomiuri Prize for "Ichijō no hikari", as well as the Ministry of Education's Art Encouragement Prize.