, known by his pen name , was a Japanese author and former yakuza. Outside Japan, he is best known for writing the manga series Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin in collaboration with artist Masasumi Kakizaki. As a teenager, Abe became a member of the Ando-gumi yakuza family, and was later recruited by the Koganei-ikka. In 1986, after leaving the yakuza life, he wrote a novel about his time in Fuchū Prison titled , which became a bestseller and was adapted into a film. Abe died on September 2, 2019, from pneumonia, aged 82.
Abe worked as a flight attendant for Japan Airlines from 1961 to 1965. He was the model for Jōji Miyagi, the main character in Yukio Mishima's entertainment romance novel Fukuzatsuna Kare (複雑な彼 That Complicated Guy) published in 1966.杉本和弘「複雑な彼」（『三島由紀夫事典』勉誠出版, 2000, pp. 310-312）安部譲二「解説」（文庫版『複雑な彼』集英社文庫, 1987） Abe's pen name "Jōji" was adapted from the character in the novel.安部譲二「解説」（文庫版『複雑な彼』角川文庫, 2009, pp. 382-388）
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